[onyx]

Thank you, LaybackLenny !!!!!

Then, the kicker: “When reminded that House Democrats don’t want to do health care in that order, Conrad said bluntly: ‘Fine, then it’s dead.‘”

[mentor2k]

Uh Oh . . . Waxman from DEEP SPACE 9 is speaking!

[hoosiermama]

FOX had a blue dog on...they chided him about not being invited because he didn’t agree with BO...He says “cost is the issue” Enough said.

[LaybackLenny]

Some follow-up from the remainder of the article at the link I posted:

The Speaker and the White House find themselves in this position because of Senator DeMint (R-SC). He insisted that Senator McConnell object to the appointment of the House-Senate Conferees, thus preventing a Conference on the bill.

The Speaker could fix the Senate bill on the House floor by amendment, then pass the Senate bill amended and fixed, but then it would have to go back to the Senate, where it would have to get 60 yes votes, or die. Since it will not get 60 votes ever again in the Senate, it will die — if the Speaker tries the amend the Senate bill on the House floor and send it back to the Senate route.

When Senator DeMint (R-SC) denied the Speaker the ability to fix the bill in Conference, he put the Speaker and the White House in their current box. If there had been a House-Senate Conference, then the House could have fixed the bill without a floor vote and the bill could have changed, without having to send it back to the Senate to face 60 vote margins.

Thank God for Sen. Jim DeMint.