will reconciliation take time? It isnt just a snap is it?
Reconciliation could last for weeks, maybe months. Each line in the bill could be fillibustered.
Barrasso just said most of the people with problems eat too much, exercise too little, and smoke! Arrow right at ZERO. Time to start over!
Obama: AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
In a pre-summit talk, House Republican Whip Eric Cantor says Democrats are trying to create a sense of "false momentum" about their national health care bill -- a bill Cantor says is dead and losing more support every day. "We have to continue the fight to make sure [it is dead]," Cantor says, "but all signs indicate now they cannot pass this in the House."
Cantor released a memo yesterday analyzing support for the bill and concluding that House Democrats are far short of the 217 votes required to pass it. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Cantor-Dem-health-bill-dead----and-getting-deader-every-day-85335412.html#ixzz0gaEtMqrH
Nope, everything that isn’t budget can be objected to and thrown out.
Greg said he has 5 pages single spaced of objections and plans to pass them out. There is no limit, nor no way to limit objections. Since as ZERO said no one cares about Senate procedure, no one should care about the approx 200 objections to be filed.
They tried to ram the original bill “in a snap” first time ‘round. Wasn’t until they realized they didn’t have the votes did things slow down.
This time they only need 51 votes.
Sounds like today’s meeting is just for show, a charade designed to elicit the soundbites needed to justify ramming it through.
Methinks this meeting wouldn’t be happening, at least like this, if there weren’t 51 votes and a bill ready to go.
You haven’t actually SEEN his proposal, have you? AFAIK nobody has.
They learn.
I’d bet on full passage & signed in 1 week flat.
jOHN Braso got wupped by obambi just now, dang. He needs his stuff through. Should have known what obambis reply would have been.