Health Care Overhaul Bill Is 'Hanging by a Thread': Dodd

CNBC ^ | 01/11/10

[MissesBush]

Cut the thread! Looks like calling our reps. and senators still might do some good. Emphasis on might. The Dems don't seem to give a rip what we the voters want. But it's worth one last effort to kill this beast.

[acoulterfan]

So what is the difference between public option and the term they are now going for ..... national exchange??

[GonzoGOP]

Health care reform is "hanging on by a thread,"

And the dems who wrote it should be hanging by a rope. JMHO

[clintonh8r]

Chris Dodd...yeah, I'll believe him.

[RedMDer]

“And the dems who wrote it should be hanging by a rope. “

Agreed.

[FromLori]

I wasn’t aware of this Exemption from Obamacare were you?

HEALTH REFORM: People with religious objections can opt out Federal health care reform will require most Northern New Yorkers — but not all, it turns out — to carry health insurance or risk a fine. Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.

http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2010/01/change-your-religion-get-exemption-from.html

[Wyatt's Torch]

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Don’t trust the democrats. They will do anything and say anything to get their way.

[Gaffer]

As liberals are predisposed to do, they should take a
coathanger to it.

[Cicero]

I read the article, but I’m unsure what Dodd’s intentions were in making this curious statement. He still won’t admit that the reason it’s hanging by a thread is that it’s a truly destructive bill that a large majority of the people strongly oppose.

[Never on my watch]

Exactly. Clip it!

[Made In The USA]

If the legislation is ‘hanging by a thread’ I think that just means that another Democrat hasn’t been promised his payoff yet.

I’ll try a few more calls though.

[Perdogg]

Two Senate democrats, Webb and Nelson, orginially warned the House that if changes were made they could back out. Given that Nelson is now in trouble, this may give him cover to keep it from being advanced.

[snowsislander]

Cut the thread! Looks like calling our reps. and senators still might do some good. Emphasis on might. The Dems don't seem to give a rip what we the voters want. But it's worth one last effort to kill this beast.

Yes, I think it is certainly worth continuing to fight this monstrosity.

[calico_thompson]

hanging by the rope and chain

[11th Commandment]

Given that Nelson is now in trouble, this may give him cover to keep it from being advanced.

I'm also thinking the RATS have information that they are on the verge of losing Kennedy's old seat in Massachusetts, which would be a horrific embarrassment. Reid's comments this weekend and Bill Clinton campaigning for Coakley are not good signs.

[Lancey Howard]

Ubama needs to make a decision, and soon.

Ubama can either get out in front of the health care debate and proclaim that, “I have decided that I cannot sign a health care bill that has no bipartisan support. A major undertaking of this importance deserves input and ideas from all sides.” Etc. He will do this only after breaking arms, shooting kneecaps, and threatening families, and ONLY if he knows the current bill is doomed, and he will do this in order to put himself high above the “petty bickering and rancor”. He will endeavor to project magnaminity and good common sense. ...A President for ALL the people, not just the Democrats.
Etc.

But if he waits until congressional leaders pronounce the bill dead, he takes the hit.
Then, it is Ubama who is the failure.

This will be an interesting few weeks leading up to Ubama’s SotU teleprompter extravaganza.

[freekitty]

They pull this crap everytime they are going to vote.

[ExSoldier]

Hey! Where'd you get my wife's sewing stuff? Especially that little birdie thinghie second from the top!

[hattend]

Dodd says this to give us a warm fuzzy so we’ll quit calling.

He’s lying...again.