Just through committee … we still have a good chance to get this crap bill dumped. After all the congressional representatives get back to their districts and hear from their constituents, things could change dramatically.
With all due respect....
I just listened to Rick Santorum on Fox news. He was asked if he thought that the congress critters would be getting a lot of flak from their constituents. Santorum said something we all should keep in mind...
He said a lot of the congress guys were NOT scheduling any meetings with constituents, town halls, anything like that, for this very fear. He checked Arlen Specter’s schedule and saw NO public meetings scheduled for the duration of the recess.
Now this might be the norm but Santorum thought that the congress guys would go out of their way to avoid public confrontations and when you think about it, it’s exactly the kind of cowardly thing they’d do.
So all this talk about “hearing from constituents” might turn out a dud.
What HAS to be done are two things...first, the pubbies, dear lord get them out of the tanning booths cause they got to be all the hell over the place lambasting this thing. Give them a pep talk that a misplaced head hair never killed anyone.
Second, the constiuents might need to go TO the congress critter. Arrange “mass meetings” at the critter’s offices. My rep has THREE offices here in Delaware, I’m sure it’s like that across the fruited plains.
Point being it won’t do to sit out here in la-la land and wait for the mythical public meetings to bring the truth to these guys.
After all, who would willingly and knowingly walk into a ring of fire?
The House will definitely pass something, and it will be the Waxman-Pelosi bill with some minor changes.
The real fight is in the Senate, where some DINOs (Baucus, Conrad) may be willing to push through their version of the bill.
Of course, in the end it will have to go through the conference process, and then all bets are off.