Posted on 02/26/2010 7:22:28 AM PST by Phlap
After more than six hours of extraordinary debate on Thursday over health care policy, President Obama had not won over any of the Republicans, and he seemed to end the day largely where he started, with little choice but to try to rally his Democrats to act on their own.
Their most viable path seemed to be an effort to attach revisions to the health care bill to a budget reconciliation measure, which the Senate could adopt by a simple majority. “If nothing comes of this we’re going to press forward,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat. “We just can’t quit. This is a once-in-a-political-lifetime opportunity to deal with a health care system that is really unsustainable.”
But doing so would require mustering the support of centrist Democrats in the House and the Senate who have expressed apprehensions about both the health care bill and the reconciliation process, which Republicans are portraying as an unfair parliamentary tactic to skirt the normal rules.
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Do the Democrats all want to eat $hit for a one term loser?
Stay tuned.
the Dems were not impressive...whenever Barry was not lecturing they just droned on with sob stories about cadaver teeth and uninsured farmers who are related to Congressional staffers and collect half-a-mil in annual ag subsidies
Something DID come of the forum. The Democrats heard that a large number of Republicans would vote for a health care bill that did most of what the democrats want.
Fortunately, the Democrats are the party of NO, and refuse to consider the easy way to health care reform victory for them.
Three things we learned from the forum:
1) The republicans are serious about health care reform, have serious proposals, and know what those proposals would do.
2) The Democrats all know someone personally living a sob story, whom the democrats refuse to help out in a time of need. Can you imagine a republican, knowing a poor woman having to wear 2nd-hand dentures, who wouldn’t have fixed that woman up with an appointment, or at least steered her to a charity? But not the democrats — they collect sob stories for their own personal power plays.
3) Obama really likes to hear himself talk.
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