NEW YORK TIMES: Legal and Political Fights Ahead for the Democrats.

WHY DID FOX PUT GERALDO ON TONIGHT? He’s even more useless than usual. And he seems to have trouble enunciating.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Not only is he so giddy that he can’t enunciate, but if other viewers are like me, I changed the channel because I couldn’t stomach his liberal glee. Does FOX not realize that it’s not a good idea to put someone like him on after we’ve been not only racketeered but defiled by the Dems?”

JESSE WALKER: “Look on the bright side: Now we get to find out what’s in it.”

KABOOM:

VIDEO: ‘Hell No!’: Boehner Makes Impassioned Statement on House Floor.

FROM THE HOUSE CLERK: How they voted.

UPDATE: Reader George Gooding writes: “I can’t help but laugh at the fact that Obama attained the much-heralded bipartisanship – against his health care bill. That’s the only bipartisan thing about the vote tonight: opposition.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Lamar Alexander’s office emails:

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today released the following statement regarding passage of the health care bill in the U.S. House of Representatives:

“This is an historic mistake. And unlike Social Security, Medicare and civil rights legislation, the only thing bipartisan about it is the opposition to it.

“The mistake is to expand a health care delivery system that is already too expensive instead of reducing its cost so more Americans can afford health insurance.

“This taxes job creators in the middle of a recession. It means Medicare cuts and premium increases for millions of Americans. When you include the cost of paying doctors who serve Medicare patients, it will increase the national debt.

“It will force governors to cut higher education funding, and raise taxes and tuition to pay for new Medicaid costs. In Tennessee, the governor says the cost will be $1.1 billion or more over five years.

“And the last-minute Washington takeover of the student loan program will add a half trillion more to the debt and overcharge 19 million student loans to help pay for health care.”

Well, students voted for Obama, so . . . try to enjoy it.

Plus, 34 Democrats who voted no.

COBB: The Great Tea Party Race Challenge.

FROM STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL: A multistate challenge to ObamaCare?

UPDATE: Reader Bryan Livingston emails:

I read reports today that over three dozen Attorneys-General are lining up to challenge the unfunded mandates and other abuses of the Federal system in the health care legislation.

I smell a Constitutional convention. In the present climate, I think the usual scary arguments against a convention fall away.

Well, that’s something Randy Barnett has been talking about.

MARKDOWNS ON camp knives and tools.

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Democrats To America: Drop Dead. “Never before in American history has a measure of such importance been imposed on the country by the majority party over the unanimous opposition of the minority. Democrats have continually sought to create a halo effect for Obamacare by associating it with Social Security and Medicare. But the reality is that both of those landmark programs were approved with strong bipartisan support in both the Senate and House.”

MEGAN MCARDLE:

Regardless of what you think about health care, tomorrow we wake up in a different political world. . . .

Republicans and other opponents of the bill did their job on this; they persuaded the country that they didn’t want this bill. And that mattered basically not at all. If you don’t find that terrifying, let me suggest that you are a Democrat who has not yet contemplated what Republicans might do under similar circumstances. Farewell, social security! Au revoir, Medicare! The reason entitlements are hard to repeal is that the Republicans care about getting re-elected. If they didn’t–if they were willing to undertake this sort of suicide mission–then the legislative lock-in you’re counting on wouldn’t exist. . . . If the GOP takes the legislative innovations of the Democrats and decides to use them, please don’t complain that it’s not fair. Someone could get seriously hurt, laughing that hard.

Read the whole thing.

HEALTH CARE GETS 219 VOTES, PASSES HOUSE. Stupak’s switch clearly made the difference.

UPDATE: Liberty dies, with thunderous applause.

A STUPAK PAYOFF? “U.S. Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Menominee) announced three airports in northern Michigan have received grants totaling $726,409 for airport maintenance and improvements. The funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration.” Probably just a coincidence.

FLASHBACK: Obama’s Promise on Using Executive Power to Change Laws.

ACADEMIC PAPER IN CHINA SETS OFF ALARMS IN U.S.: “It shows that in an atmosphere already charged with hostility between the United States and China over cybersecurity issues, including large-scale attacks on computer networks, even a misunderstanding has the potential to escalate tension and set off an overreaction.”

WATCH OUT BARBARA BOXER: “It looks like I have enough signatures to make the ballot.”

AT PJTV, it’s Stephen Green’s The Week In Blogs.

LIVEBLOGGING THE DEBATE at UnitedLiberty.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: SUPPORT SURGING ALREADY FOR STUPAK’S RE-ELECTION OPPONENT. I just looked at the opponent, Dan Benishek’s Facebook page and the numbers continue to climb.

RON PAUL blasts Stupak’s deal as “unconstitutional outrage.”

UPDATE: Michael Barone: Questions About The Stupak Deal. “Why did the Obama administration and the Democratic leadership make the deal with Stupak? Because they feared they didn’t have the 216 votes to pass the bill without him. And they know that, as Debby Wasserman-Schultz stated, an executive order cannot override an act of Congress.” Yeah, Obama gave us an executive order to close Guantanamo, too . . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: GOP trying to force original Stupak language in. And Dr. Weevil hasn’t given up hope.

MORE: John Hinderaker: “This is a dark day in American history; one of the darkest. But there are many reasons for optimism. Here are a few.”

ANNALS OF GOVT. HEALTH CARE, CONT’D: Docs Removed Wrong Testicle. “Details of the error surfaced this week after the hospital was forced to confess all thanks to freedom of information laws. Care at the hospital had previously been rated ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission.”

UPDATE: Joy McCann emails: “Did they get both of Bart Stupak’s?” Heh.

STUPAK FOLDS.

Meanwhile, reader Lisa Schell writes:

Watch the momentum on Stupak’s opponent’s facebook page. Dr. Dan Benishek is running against Stupak in Michigan. Check out the velocity of his growth since Stupak announced: Benishek for Congress

His membership is currently growing at a rate of about 20 new members every 30-60 seconds and incoming comments are fast and furious. People are begging him to set up his donation site so that they can start a money bomb.

Like the protester said yesterday, if you vote yes on the bill, we’ll vote no on you in November.

UPDATE: Reader Mark Kilian writes:

Dr. Benishek’s Facebook doesn’t yet have a pay button but his snail mail address is listed:

Benishek For Congress
802 Pentoga Trail
Crystal Falls, MI 49920

I literally couldn’t wait and I am heading to the mailbox to send my check tonight.

Wow. If that reaction is at all common, Stupak could come to regret this.

MORE PHOTOS FROM YESTERDAY’S RALLY AT THE CAPITOL: “All of these are by Meade (my husband, who says everyone was perfectly nice — too nice, if anything).” I like the lobster one especially.

GETTING HOLD OF Nancy Pelosi’s travel receipts. “According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force close to $2.2 million over a two-year period.” Like I say, I don’t want to hear one word about my carbon footprint.

IN MICHIGAN, protesting Jennifer Granholm’s “Michigan Meatout Day.” Granholm urging voters to go without meat? The mind reels with sarcastic replies. . . .