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Posted on 02/10/2010 4:39:53 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama has proposed a bipartisan health care summit for later this month that Republican detractors bill as a publicity stunt designed to generate more support for the flailing pro-abortion health care bill. Now, an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially admitted that's the case.
In comments reported by Congress Daily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate's pro-abortion, government-run health care bill.
Primus explained that the Senate will use the controversial reconciliation strategy that will have the House approve the Senate bill and both the House and Senate okaying changes to the bill that the Senate will sign off on by preventing Republicans from filibustering.
“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.
“There's a certain skill, there's a trick, but I think we'll get it done,” he said.
Conservative columnist Connie Hair noted Primus' remarks and called the reconciliation strategy and the White House health care summit two big “rope-a-dope” plays that are "just another in a long charade of dog and pony shows."
Hair says "the end game has already been decided behind closed doors by Democrats who have no intention of letting this opportunity for cradle to grave control over the American people slip away when it’s so close."
"The Senate reconciliation bill trick that would 'fix' the Senate-passed health care bill would then have to pass the House.
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Let’s see what the House is being asked to do. First it has to OK the senate bill, then it has to OK a patch rammed by the Senate. I don’t think the House is going to buy the promise that there will be an acceptable patch or that Bummer will cooperate and not leave them there naked with the Senate version.
Maybe God will take an active hand in this and February 25th will be a full-blown blizzard in DC! Ha! Sorry Obama - couldn’t get to the White House - had to cancel, schedule too full to get with you before say - November 4, 2010!
This whole “summit” gag is a cheap, Chicago pimp trick. The GOP needs to stay as far away from this scam as possible. We can’t trust BO. Remember Baltimore!
Call your elected gutless wonders and scream big time and include the GOP leadership and RNC to that list. I did!
Will Stupak and other pro-life Democrats stick to their guns and vote against this because of the Senate’s abortion language?
I also called the state offices of McConnell , Boehmer, and Cantor and read those three fools poor staff the riot act.
I was told I am not the only one !
SO CALL the local office since DC is closed . Thank God!!!!!!
Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.
Petition drives to discourage GOP participation in the ObamaCare Summit Trap are already hitting email inboxes. I got something on this tonight from Grassfire.org.
They know it is crap but will they stay away from the “conference?”
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