Posted on 11/05/2009 12:29:49 PM PST by clyde_m
Audio runs about 20 minutes. The main points were that dems are peeling away from "yes" votes on a daily basis, although the consensus was that it would pass - but this varied a lot in the conversation. Dems are feeling heat both directly from constituents and indirectly from Tuesday's election returns.
Speaker Pelosi is pushing this vote at this time, they suggested, because the closer the 2010 mid-terms come, the harder it will be to keep votes. Rep. Capito suggested that there is a lot of pressure from the White House - President Obama will have no momentum whatsoever going into an election year if he hasn't signed a health-care bill by the end of 2009.
The overall feeling I get is that the vote is too close to call, and that slipping even into next week will cost votes Pelosi cannot afford to lose.
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