Posted on 03/21/2010 8:30:15 AM PDT by SvenWaring
President Barack Obama is canceling a scheduled economic recovery for passage of the health care bill.
Earlier, Obama postponed a trip to Asia to hang out while Congress debated both the health care legislation and ways to vote on the health care bill without actually voting on it.
"This is historic," said the President's spokesperson, Robert Gibbs. "There's not many chances in a President's career where he can destroy both short-term and long-term economic growth. And also thwart democracy in new ways. That's what this President is all about."
Gibbs said the President wanted quick passage of the bill so he could get back to checking his March Madness bracket.
Obama asked for the bill to be enacted before Easter.
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