Daschle: Medicare bill may not get out of conference (Delay says it will)

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[SierraWasp]

12:30PM Daschle: Medicare bill may not get out of conference by Maggie McNeil

WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said the medicare prescription drug bill taking shape in House/Senate negotiations would be unlikely to pass the narrowly divided Senate and may not even make it out of conference negotiations. Senate Democrats are objecting to efforts by House Republicans to cap future Medicare spending and to put Medicare in competition with private insurance programs beginning in 2010. Earlier, House Majority Leader Tom Delay said he remained optimistic on prospects for completing the drug bill and said that objections by "obstructionist" Senate Democrats were a sign that a final package was beginning to take shape. Delay said failure to pass a bill would hurt Democrats in next year's elections. Daschle said Delay's electoral prediction was "wishful thinking."

[SierraWasp]

BOHICA!!!

[KantianBurke]

Never thought I'd say this but GO DASCHLE!! STOP DELAY!! No free pills for granny!

[SierraWasp]

Putrid Pesimistice Pissant Daschle Ping!!!

[Principled]

i wish the repubs would grow some over this, the fed judges, the "filibuster, and the memo and everything.

[Indy Pendance]

YES! Let's pray this will be stalled forever!

[JohnGalt]

Ditto's to your post.

What was up is down; what was down is up, these days...

[SierraWasp]

I guess you din't evun read the part that Delay said about introducing private inshurance to cumpete with Granny's Medicare Inshurance, rite?

[petercooper]

Good!

[concerned about politics]

Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle said the medicare prescription drug bill taking shape in House/Senate negotiations would be unlikely to pass the narrowly divided Senate and may not even make it out of conference negotiations.

Oh well, at least the Republicans tried their best to help you, but the Democrats are stopping them, grandmother.
I'm sorry. We'll have to wait until the Democrats are voted out of office. I hope you can hold on long enough to see that day, dear grandmother.

[KantianBurke]

"The World Turned Upside Down"
-played when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown (1781) the British played this tune-

If buttercups buzz'd after the bee,
If boats were on land, churches on sea,
If ponies rode men and if grass ate the cows,
And cats should be chased into holes by the mouse,
If the mamas sold their babies
To the gypsies for half a crown;
If summer were spring and the other way round,
Then all the world would be upside down.

http://www.contemplator.com/folk3/worldtur.html

[KantianBurke]

Actually my attention was focused on more important documents - the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Tried to find where the prescription drug benefit was written down. What a shock! Its not there!

[dirtboy]

Oh well, at least the Republicans tried their best to help you, but the Democrats are stopping them, grandmother. I'm sorry. We'll have to wait until the Democrats are voted out of office. I hope you can hold on long enough to see that day, dear grandmother.

Yeah, who on earth would expect dear grandmother to actually PAY for her medical care, even if she's worth millions?

[dirtboy]

Actually my attention was focused on more important documents - the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Tried to find where the prescription drug benefit was written down. What a shock! Its not there!

I'll add it to the database of things the federal government does that it has no constitutional authority to do.

type type type type type

Oops, the hard drive is full. Gotta get a new computer to hold all of that.

[ChewedGum]

Anyone else see the report that showed how it would be impossible for Medicare to compete with other Insurance Companies? That is so comforting to know.

Gum

[Tatze]

I agree. Please forgive me but, Go Daschle!! Kill this bill!!!

[JohnGalt]

British bumper sticker:

So how do you like taxation with representation?

[sully777]

I don't care if the senator has a D or an R at the end of his name, this bill is the worst piece of communist trash I've seen in my lifetime. This bill must go down in flames, get bottled up, or whatever.

No doubt Daschle would love to take this issue away from Bush and ridicule Bush as a do-nothing. I can live with that. Go Daschle!

You can't entitlement your way to prosperity especially if it need nearly $1 trillion in seed money.

[concerned about politics]

Yeah, who on earth would expect dear grandmother to actually PAY for her medical care, even if she's worth millions?

The Republican bill is for private companies to compete for the business - a plus.
The bill is also for the very poor - income based. Anti-Democrat type stuff.
Yes, people need to ween themselves off the social programs of the "great society." In the meantime, they're lost. They should have never followed the Democrats in the first place.
I agree. We should not have to work to support everyone else. They should take care of themselves. No man should be held as another mans slave.

[jmc813]

Good news.

[OldFriend]

This is good for us.......let Daschle be seen as OBSTRUCTING once again.