http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/edcetera/2010836222_obamacares_massachusetts_defea.html
This may be the end of Obamacare. Or there may be some quick moves in Congress before Massachusetts’ new senator is seated. If that happens, just wait until November.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/faced-with-bad-health-car_n_245624.html
Slightly after noon on an otherwise slow-news Saturday, journalists began turning their attention to a Congressional Budget Office analysis released earlier that morning detailing how an independent panel could affect Medicare spending.
A little-known Republican shook up the balance of power in Washington by winning a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, a result that imperils President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities and points to trouble for his party in this year’s midterm elections.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/jan/20/gut-chec/?newswatch
Abandoning the health-care overhaul is not an option, a senior White House official said today, after President Barack Obama’s top domestic initiative took a devastating hit with the Democratic loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/January/20/NBC-WSJ-Poll.aspx
MSNBC reports that “the American public has grown increasingly skeptical over [Obama’s] promises to change Washington and his ‘yes-we-can’ agenda, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. … Only 33 percent say that Obama’s health care plan is a good idea, compared with 46 percent who believe it’s a bad one.
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/01/19/barney-frank-deals-potential-d
Rep. Barney Frank is not a wobbly moderate in a marginal district, but a liberal Democrat who has been supportive of the health care push. And that’s why this statement below, which essentially rules out all of the options being discussed for pushing through Obamacare, deals a potentially fatal blow to the legislation.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703837004575013120573610774.html#sgp
The question now is how Democrats will respond to this historic election rebuke. Only a fleeting supermajority and corrupt logrolling has allowed ObamaCare to advance as far as it has, but many liberals will be tempted to keep telling voters to shut up and learn to like what Democrats give them. “Let’s remove all doubt,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters this week. “We will have health care one way or another.”
http://polijamblog.polijam.com/?p=13990
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012001599.html
Majority Leader Harry Reid says Senate Democrats will press ahead with President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul despite the loss of a Massachusetts Senate seat to a Republican.
Throughout the Massachusetts Senate race, we heard the number “41″ repeated over and over — as in Scott Brown would become the 41st Republican senator, whose presence would deprive Democrats of a filibuster-proof majority and stop President Obama’s national health care plan. But now that Brown actually is the 41st GOP senator, the most important number in politics is 218 — as in, can House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amass a majority of 218 votes for House Democrats to pass the health care bill already approved by the Senate, thus sending it to Obama’s desk to be signed into law.