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Is Pelosi now 100 votes short on Obamacare?
Washington Examiner ^ | Feb 12, 2010 | Mark Tapscott

Posted on 02/12/2010 4:59:51 PM PST by BAW

Even if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are able to pull their legislative hat trick on Obamacare, as reported earlier this week by Congress Daily, it looks like support for such a measure among House Democrats is crumbling.

Note this statement today in a Politico piece on a "seething feud" between Pelosi and President Obama:

"Though Pelosi and other House Democrats have made it clear that they’re angry with the Senate, they’re also frustrated with the president, upset that he hasn’t come to terms with the problems of getting legislation through the upper chamber — or done enough to overcome them.

“'He wants a jobs bill, we get a jobs bill,' the official said. 'He wanted health care, we got health care. Then the answer is, ‘You just need to twist enough arms to pass the Senate bill.’ You can twist arms if you’ve got a handful of them to twist. You can’t twist over 100 arms. There needs to be some reality check there.'”

Taken literally, that statement suggests that more than 100 House Democrats are potentially ready to walk away from Obamacare if given the opportunity.

It appears from the Politico report that loyalty to the Obama agenda has been put on hold by many congressional Democrats, as the same unnamed official continued:

“'Both ends of the Capitol — the House and the Senate — are starting to wonder if they’re on their own,' the official continued. 'You have a lot of frustration there. And the White House’s reaction to all of that seems to be, ‘Run against Congress’ — which, as you can imagine, doesn’t go over very well with House members. The White House reaction seems to be, ‘Position ourselves against Congress.’”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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Chuckle.
1 posted on 02/12/2010 4:59:51 PM PST by BAW
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Pop Corn time!


2 posted on 02/12/2010 5:01:14 PM PST by AU72
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To: BAW

Heh heh


3 posted on 02/12/2010 5:02:49 PM PST by La Lydia
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To: BAW

We all know she’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal.


4 posted on 02/12/2010 5:03:42 PM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: BAW

It’s just amorphous moodiness.


5 posted on 02/12/2010 5:04:03 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: BAW

I know she is only one more face lift away from a beard.


6 posted on 02/12/2010 5:04:34 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: La Lydia

>>You can’t twist over 100 arms. There needs to be some reality check there.’”

That’s because they remember the Ben Nelson “drop”.


7 posted on 02/12/2010 5:05:56 PM PST by max americana
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To: BAW

FAIL!

Thanks God!


8 posted on 02/12/2010 5:06:35 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
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To: goodwithagun

“I know she is only one more face lift away from a beard.”

A Van Dyke, as the old joke goes....


9 posted on 02/12/2010 5:06:59 PM PST by SpinyNorman (Carbon credits are designed to be the slush fund of the New World Order.)
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To: BAW

Giggle


10 posted on 02/12/2010 5:12:37 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: BAW

I am so upset, I think that I am going to cry myself to sleep tonight. Hope and Change, gone forever.


11 posted on 02/12/2010 5:12:56 PM PST by centurion316
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OMG. I can’t stop laughing.


12 posted on 02/12/2010 5:13:57 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (I love the Bill of Rights. Is that extremist?)
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To: BAW

Obama has managed to destroy his own coalition. Pretty good for an amateur! LOL


13 posted on 02/12/2010 5:19:35 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: BAW
meow...meow,meow...meow...

Git 'long, liddle kitties!

rrrrrrRRROOOOWWWEEERRR!!...hiss,hisss,hissss...

Cats just don't herd.

14 posted on 02/12/2010 5:21:30 PM PST by Tonytitan
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The Kommiekazi Corps must be getting hesitant to take off...MORE SAKI!


15 posted on 02/12/2010 5:27:34 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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a “seething feud” between Pelosi and President Obama:

Ya can’t be a decent liberal unless your seething most of your life


16 posted on 02/12/2010 5:28:15 PM PST by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: BAW

Well, that’s good news... but I always thought that support would crumble anyway. I was saying that right after the election. I figured that “reality” would intrude upon “platitudes”... :-)


17 posted on 02/12/2010 5:31:46 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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“'Both ends of the Capitol — the House and the Senate — are starting to wonder if they’re on their own,'

They are ALL sharks and can thus smell blood in the water from miles away!

18 posted on 02/12/2010 5:38:55 PM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: BAW

This really makes me laugh, especially when I recall how Nancy chortled, when they got their super majority, how nothing is going to stop her agenda. Her own party is against her.


19 posted on 02/12/2010 5:44:25 PM PST by Jaidyn
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I want to see the destruction of these bastards.....they're so full of crap....they haven't had the votes even leading up to the 2nd Boston tea party with downtown Scotty Brown, but after Brown's election....ha ! get serious. You're done.
20 posted on 02/12/2010 5:59:03 PM PST by chiller ( ALMOST SPEECHLESS)
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