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Posted on 02/28/2010 2:23:09 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the Congress voiced confidence on Sunday they will have the votes, possibly within a couple of months or so, to pass landmark legislation to overhaul the healthcare system.
Facing a wall of Republican opposition, Democrats have said they may resort to a rarely used procedural tactic, .. reconciliation, to win approval on purely partisan votes.
President Barack Obama, who hosted a White House summit last week that produced no sign of bipartisan compromise, is to announce this week how he would like Democrats to proceed on a top legislative priority.
"Our members, everyone of them, wants healthcare" reform, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, told ABC's "This Week" program.
"Everybody wants affordable healthcare for all Americans," Pelosi said. "They know that this will take courage."
Surveys show Americans oppose the sweeping legislation pushed by Democrats during the past year. But polls also find that most Americans favor reform and believe costs need to be reduced and coverage expanded.
Republican Senator Lamar Alexander warned Democrats to expect voter backlash in November's congressional elections if they try to use reconciliation, which would enable them to win passage in the 100-member Senate with 51 votes rather than the 60 required to clear Republican roadblocks.
"It would be a political kamikaze mission for the Democratic Party if they jam this through after the American people have been saying, 'Look, we're trying to tell you in every way we know how, in elections, in surveys, in town hall meetings, we don't want this bill,'" Alexander told "This Week."
"We'd really like to get a bipartisan bill," said Senator Robert Menendez, ..
"In the absence of that, the American people ... have said in the polls that they want to see (us) move forward on healthcare reform," ..
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
++++ Facing a wall of..... American citizen opposition..+++++
Facing a wall of what I don’t hear mentioned......To being POOLED IN WITH EVERY KIND OF DEGRADED DEVIANT LIFESTYLE/s.
Americans must sacrifice...while the same party-ing, perks, huge salaries and huge pension lifestyles goes on with all the beltway friends.
Highly doubtful. The word is that vulnerable dems will still lose their seat having voted for it initially so the must fall on their sword for the party. Other pundits say that anything passed is better than nothing so they have no alternative and pray the voters will like it in the end. Political suicide.
“Democratic leaders in the Congress voiced confidence on Sunday they will have the votes, possibly within a couple of months or so...”
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That’s a wonderful cartoon! Thanks for posting!
Right ... which couple of months?
Is that the same couple of months it was going to take to get fully out of Iraq? Wait we are still there.
You know, if I was a progressive lib I would be livid at the clueless incompetence of this crew. They WANT to pass it to show something to their base, but in fact this turkey is very unpopular for very good reasons, and #1 reason is: WE CANNOT AFFORD IT. A trillion more dollars we cannot afford.
That's how it struck me, too.
Here's hoping we're right.
Where’s the BARF alert?
OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!
Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121
Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts
Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins.
(DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/
New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake. http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security
http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security
Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html
SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460358/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
Snip The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
Snip
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
Liar! You would like Republicans to endorse your bill, period. Just another smarmy jerk using his talking points to deceive the public.
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They don't have the votes unless they bribe someone else!
I visit the Burberry outlet when we go to Vegas. Looks like Harry does too..uggh.
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They will wait to see who is going to lose their seat and convince them a yes vote won’t hurt them any way
I wish this could reach the millions of voters it will take to STOP this from the results at the end of this POWERFUL POWERPOINT! We have little to go!
I agree. Beat this dead horse the rest of the year. Then they won’t have time for the illegal immigration reform or gun control or any of their other unAmerican legislation. Hope we can keep people remembering all this in November.
“Aren’t we in a sad state of affairs with this person at the helm?”
Look on the bright side. America’s freedom is safer with an *INCOMPETENT* crew of socialists at the helm than a competent set.
Had they known how to lead, your freedoms would be gone by now.
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