Health care overhaul faces stone wall in Senate

AP ^ | Nov 8, 2009 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

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WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people."

The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

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Seems like Democratic Senators don't sell out so cheap in the senate. Obama is going to have to burn what political capital he has to get this one through. Snarlin' Arlen leading the charge no doubt.

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If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

How is those Stalinist Purges of Blue Dogs and moderates coming along, Kos and MoveOn.Org?

(In the case of Lieberman, he was a loyal ultraliberal before the socialists expelled him from the democrat party.)

[FormerACLUmember]

If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

How ARE those Stalinist Purges of Blue Dogs and moderates coming along, Kos and MoveOn.Org?

(In the case of Lieberman, he was a loyal ultraliberal before the socialists expelled him from the democrat party.)