Posted on 11/07/2009 7:05:56 AM PST by opentalk
House Democrats may finally be taking note of voters' fears of ObamaCare.
The Dems were planning to pass their bill today, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi & Co. yesterday realized it might fail, and mulled delaying the vote.
Here's a better idea: Give it up.
There's no reason, after all, for them to follow the White House like lemmings down a path as dangerous to their party's electoral future as it is to the country.
Indeed, that their trillion-dollar bill even remains a priority -- while unemployment has hit 10.2 percent, highest in 26 years, as was reported yesterday -- is a fair measure of their tone-deafness.
It's no surprise, of course, that Pelosi wants to ram this bill through fast. Tuesday's election sounded alarms about voters' wariness of massive new public-spending programs, like ObamaCare.
Voters ousted incumbents in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, the latter two electing Republican governors. Independents voted with the GOP by a 2-1 margin -- exactly opposite their electoral behavior in 2006 and '08.
Best get it over with, before opposition solidifies, Pelosi surely figures.
But the deadline's repeated slippages point up the resistance within the Democrat's own caucus. "Blue Dog" Dems are contemplating their own re-election prospects a year from now -- and are keenly aware of the voters' wrath.
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Pelosi deserves a colossal failure under her “illustrious”
leadership. Hopefully today is the day!
A better idea...convene Congress and figure out how to create JOBS in this country if you want to help people in this country....Well after writing this, Congress go home and get the hell out of the way and let the citizens of this country turns this thing around.
A better idea...convene Congress and figure out how to create JOBS in this country if you want to help people in this country....Well after writing this, Congress go home and get the hell out of the way and let the citizens of this country turns this thing around.
Last night, they were saying the Stupak Amendment was to be voted on at 8am.
WHAT HAPPENED?
This is an Up-Down vote on Abortion for the Democrats. And they are TERRIFIED of it!
This couldn’t have worked out better for us if the Republicans had planned it, if they had that much competence!!!
If it passes 218-217, then the media can say it's the result of the NY-23 race and conservatives refusing to support the official Republican nominee. (Of course, if Scozzafava had won, she would probably have been the sole Republican "yes" vote for the bill.)
The Fox All-Stars are RINOS for the most part. I’m sure they hope it passes.
All I can say is that if the house bluedogs are crazy enough to pass this then they had better fear the wrath that waits all of them when they go home.I’m not kidding! What you hear in line at the store is something that I have never heard before.People are frustrated angry and scared.
Remember that passing the House doesn’t mean it becomes law—it still has to be passed by the Senate (and differences resolved in committee). Reid has hinted that the Senate vote may be after the first of the year. Of course they can try to sneak objectionable features into the bill during the conference stage, hoping the public won’t be watching.
Do you have any idea how the senate is stacking up on the bill?
I haven’t heard any figures lately but I think they are still short of 60 to end a filibuster.
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