With the election of Scott Brown, and now the opening up of the politcal war coffers on the right through the death of Mccain-Feingold, dems are running scared from their own far left agenda. Witness the recent machinations in the ObamaCare wars.
Pelosi has announced she can’t pass the Senate bill through the House. Barney Frank, whose MA district voted for Scott Brown, is calling for a reboot, and they are now down to the last desperate act, but one that will, in essense, require them to take ObamaCare through both the House and the Senate again, reconciliation.
Here was their attempt to cram the bill through the House to avoid resolving the differences between the Senate and House Bill:
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Politico: Democrats’ ObamaCare talks collapsing?
Part of the negotiations center on whether Reid can provide an ironclad guarantee that the Senate will not leave the House in the lurch, aides said. If the House agrees to pass the Senate bill with a companion measure — or a “cleanup” bill — to make fixes, they want to know that the Senate will indeed pass it, too.
There was some talk among Senate leadership on Thursday of putting together a letter signed by 51 Democratic senators pledging to pass a cleanup bill if the House would pass the Senate bill. But that effort fizzled when support for it didn’t materialize, insiders said.
“The Senate moderates’ viewpoint is, ‘We passed our bill. We’re not going to spend three weeks on some other bill,’” said a Democratic lobbyist who represents clients pushing for reform.
“There’s a real possibility it doesn’t get through,” said another Democratic lobbyist.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/21/politico-democrats-obamacare-talks-collapsing/
Nancy Pelosi announces the death of ObamaCare in its present form:
This report confirms the obvious—namely, that Obamacare is crumbling before our eyes:
As top Democrats cast doubt for a way to get health care back on track, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took one option off the table Thursday, saying her caucus doesn’t have the stomach to pass the Senate bill unless changes are made. “In its present form, without any change, I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” Pelosi said. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time. . . ‘Unease’ would be a gentle word in terms the attitude of my colleagues toward certain provisions of the Senate bill,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday morning.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/221511
Speaker Pelosi announces she cannot pass the Senate version of the bill through the House:
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There are certain things that, um, members just cannot support. So in its present form without any, uh, change, I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House…”- Nancy Pelosi
Faced with the prospect of an arrogant one-party government running the country, the people responded the only way they knew how: at the polls. On Tuesday, for the first time in over 30 years, the people of Massachusetts elected a Republican to fill a Democrat’s seat in the Senate thus snatching away that critical 60th vote needed to pass a bill without threat of a GOP filibuster.
From:
http://sandrarose.com/2010/01/22/obamacare-crashes-and-burns/
Rising Conservative star, Representative Paul Ryan, has revealed the desperate attempt and commitment of the far left to cram this government takeover through Congress, even without the consent or will of the people:
NRO reports:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, tells National Review Online that House Democrats are planning to use the budget-reconciliation process in order to pass Obamacare. “They’re meeting with each other this weekend to pursue it,” says Ryan. “I’ve spoken with many Democrats and the message is this: They’re not ready to give up. They’ve waited their entire adult lives for this moment, and they aren’t ready to let 100,000 pesky votes in Massachusetts get in the way of fulfilling their destiny. They’ll look at every option and spend the next four or five days figuring it out.”
If the Democrats pass a health-care bill through reconciliation, it means they would need only 51 votes in the Senate for final passage. To start the process, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) would need to bring a new health-care bill to the House Budget Committee with reconciliation instructions, with the Senate doing the same.
from:
http://blogsforvictory.com/2010/01/22/will-the-democrats-use-reconciliation-for-obamacare/
ObamaCare will not pass in time for the next summer break, our prediction, meaning that the congressmen and senators, now closer to election, and going back to a second round of Town Halls, will have even less of a backbone to do the unthinkable, defy the will of the people, meaning that unless the dems somehow hold on to the house and their 59 to 41 majority, ObamaCare is dead.
It is like watching a team down 49-0 with a quarter of football left to play, still hurling hail mary after hail mary, desperately trying to win. Rather than resting its star players for the next big game, the left will continue to exhaust its resources, time, money, and dwindling political capital on a losing cause.
Hail freedom, Hail the people.
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