Posted on 01/15/2010 9:49:40 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats are "very close" to reaching final agreement on healthcare reform legislation and could have a deal in days, House of Representatives Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer said on Friday.
"I would certainly hope that within the next 24, 48, 72 hours, that we have a general agreement between the Senate and the House," Hoyer said in an interview with U.S. cable network CNBC.
Reform of the $2.5 trillion healthcare sector is the top legislative priority for President Barack Obama. The House and Senate versions of the overhaul must be melded into one bill and passed again by each chamber before Obama can sign it.
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They will have to because Brown will win Mass. and this is their only chance. I DARE THE DEMS TO PASS THIS!
...”very close” to being crushed.....
Anyone know what will happen if it passes before Tuesday? The incumbent/ appointee stays until Brown is sworn in? So there is a teeny window of opp between now and next week? Something like that ...
Time to soak your torches and sharpen your pitchforks, FReepers! It’s time to throw the bums out!
“You don’t ever want a crisis(latest being Haiti)to go to waste”— Rahm Emanuel
There is no incumbent is there? I thought the Swimmer had assumed room temerature?
Didn’t they also say we’d have 72 hours to read it before they vote? That should get us through the election on the 19th...but when are we to believe anything they say?
Oh, yea, 72 hours, televised on C-Span, etc, etc.
But that is all just campaign promises... “There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,” quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.
Just democrat campaign BS, you know, lies.
But hey, it’s a crises, got to act now…
I don’t think there will be a health packaged passed. They reached to far, ignored the economy, and now everyone is yelling at them. More than anything, they want to be re elected
“Time to soak your torches and sharpen your pitchforks, FReepers! It’s time to throw the bums out!”
Doubt it for 40-50%. They get a vicarious thrill up their leg identifying with the health industry exec’ bonuses that will come with this fascism. May are business cultists, they like the no-option plans. Only thing that upsets many is the “public option” figment of imagination that was never to be.
In a few years many will be smiling with satisfaction when Rush tells them stories beginning with “I played golf this weekend with my buddies from Aetna and they told me...”
I thot, maybe, that someone had been appointed to keep that seat warm until the election?
Why are powerful leftists operating totally in secret?
Because they’re afraid that if the American people saw what they were doing, they would come to Washington D.C. en masse with pitchforks and torches.
That’s why Obama, Pelosi and Reid have chosen to meet behind closed-doors, out of sight from the American people, as they seek to shove a 2500-page-plus monster down each of our throats, one page at a time.
In a sudden bout of honesty last week, Pelosi herself said as much when she told CBS News: “The House and Senate plan [is] to put together the final health care reform bill behind closed doors according to an agreement by top Democrats.”
In other words, after days of spewing laughable tales of how “open and transparent” the legislative process on health care has been, Speaker Pelosi decided to be “open and transparent” about how non-transparently Congressional Democrats plan to move forward in their efforts to pass ObamaCare.
Remember, it was Pelosi who has stated that she will do “whatever it takes” to pass ObamaCare.
You already know about the bribes – the “Louisiana Purchase,” the “Cornhusker Kickback,” the 100 million in taxpayer dollars for Senator Chris Dodd’s hospital, the Medicare Advantage benefits for seniors that Florida Senator Bill Nelson got mostly for just three Florida counties (what about seniors in the rest of the state and the country who stand to lose their benefits under ObamaCare?), and so on... and so on....
You already know about Pelosi and Reid’s false promises about “presiding over the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history.”
It’s no wonder that nearly 60% of the American people do not approve of the way that Obama is handling the health care issue, according to the most recent Gallup poll. Even CNN recently reported that the news for Obama is even worse. The headline reads: “CNN Poll: 61% of Americans oppose Senate Health Care Bill.”
Perhaps the only ones who still support ObamaCare are Obama, Pelosi, Reid and those fanatical leftists who probably received Che Guevara tee-shirts for Christmas.
We need to remind our elected officials that the vast majority of Americans detest ObamaCare. And, your urgent, personalized blast faxes can help ensure its defeat.
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