Pelosi: 'Making history today'

Politico ^ | 11/07/07 | PATRICK O'CONNOR

[Baladas]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi all-but-predicted passage of a House health reform bill Saturday, following an emotional appeal from President Barack Obama to fellow Democrats, urging them to “answer the call of history” and vote yes.

“Now’s the time to finish the job,” Obama said in the Rose Garden, following a 45-minute closed-door meeting with the House Democratic caucus on Capitol Hill.

“I reminded them that opportunities like this come around maybe once in a generation,” Obama said. “This is their moment, this is our moment, to live up to the trust the American people have pledged in us.”

Obama left the Hill without addressing reporters, but Pelosi took to the microphones after he left sounding confident of passage. "Today we will make not only history, but progress for America's working families," she said.

But she and her top lieutenants stopped short of saying they had the 218 votes needed for passage – signaling a day of vote-wrangling and arm-twisting that could stretch into Saturday night.

The stakes for Obama are high – with health care his signature legislative priority and twin majority in Congress. But Democrats appeared to remain shy of the votes needed, as some wavering Democrats were skittish of backing the $1.2 trillion measure after Tuesday’s Democratic election washout and Friday’s 10-percent-plus unemployment rate.

[Baladas]

Oh, she's making history alright - all Banana Republics have a history.

[ExTexasRedhead]

They’re destroying the RAT party, IMO. Who needs terrorist enemies when we have them in the US Congress?

[FormerACLUmember]

Venezuela once had a proud history also.

[Tzimisce]

Yeah - they’re doing something the British, the Nazis, the Chi-Coms, the Iranians and al Queda couldn’t - destroy the US!

That’s quite a history landmark.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

“This is their moment, this is our moment, to live up to the trust the American people have pledged in us.”

Where does he get this crap?

[Grampa Dave]

She made history yesterday and today by not dismissing the house until the funerals for the slain at Ft Hood were over.

Pelosi is a vile B$tch for not dismissing the house after that terrible tragedy.

[COUNTrecount]

[PittsburghAfterDark]

What a vile ctinking sunt.

That’s all I have to say about that.

[musicman]

[beethovenfan]

F you, Nancy. I’m praying that you FAIL big time.

[lt.america]

” House leaders won the backing of the nation’s Catholic bishops for a last-minute abortion compromise”

I find this disturbing. These catholic bishops have to realize that is a classic bait and switch once this goes into committee. They should have more sense than this.

[TheGrimReaper]

Thank you for inducing high-velocity projectile vomiting.

[Aria]

Oh, the “historical” crap they used to get zero elected.

Lots of rotten things are historical .... I hope this bill is history.

[Just A Nobody]

See updates starting here on who is and is not voting for this monstrosity!

Please call the Yes and Undecideds!

[Uncle Sham]

“This is their moment, this is our moment, to live up to the trust the American people have pledged in us.”

I say, in the spirit of Ronald Reagan, We should trust but VERIFY by having a few states pass one simple law.

[GloriaJane]

[meyer]

If they pass this, we need to shut this country down. A national strike. I'm serious.

Civil disobedience at every possible level. Tie them up with their own red tape.

Do not buy American, except if the seller is conservative. Do not hire liberals. Fire them. Put 'em out on the street where stray dogs belong.

A scorched earth policy is called for. They will not listen to the vast majority of the people, and they should be severely punished for that. Not just at the voting booth. This goes beyond voting. Way beyond voting.

This cannot stand.

[NorwegianViking]

She should have been born in Iran.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Answering the call of history my lily, white ass.
He wants them to answer the call of Obama.

[musicman]

[Tawiskaro]

[TexasFreeper2009]

I just got an email for my democratic congressman “Chet Edwards” which says he will vote NO on this healthcare reform.

I have never seen his name on the list of possible dems that would vote no :)

Good news !

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Hey Congress, Read our lips! The taxpayers don’t want any kind of health care bill! We want you to leave us alone. The only ones supporting your bill are the NON_TAXPAYERS who think the whole thing is “free”!

[historyrepeatz]

9/11 made history too.

[Nosterrex]

Let me see. Lenin made history. Hitler made history. Osama Bin Laden made history. Pelosi will fit in nicely with these history makers.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Treason.

[Slyfox]

The Real Reason why San Fran Nan wants free health care for everybody:

So she can get all the plastic surgery she wants.

[Dewey Revoltnow]

This could be the day Pelosi and whole lot of other rats sign their own death certificates. Their choice.

[roses of sharon]

First time in history that the US Congress will be dragged out into the square, to be hung by the neck until...

[boomop1]

Soros

[RJS1950]

She’s potentially making the same history as Edmund Ruffin did for the democrat party in 1861. Maybe she’ll do the same thing he did when the confederacy surrendered.

[Nateman]

More history

[Outlaw Woman]

Can you imagine what message (threat) the 45 minute meeting behind closed doors was conveyed to those present?

[Shqipo]

“I reminded them that opportunities like this come around maybe once in a generation,”
—If the bill is the joyous panacea they so claim it to be, I ask why?

[jerod]

Enforcing a measure with a bare majority and no support from the opposition is a bad thing. A very bad thing.

[Outlaw Woman]

Now THAT I will find the funds to attend and to assist!

[cubreporter]

They are NOT Catholic Bishops. If they were they would have said NO, NO, NO to any thing relating to abortion. They are NOT Catholic. Shame on them. But...that’s the church now so....

[50mm]

Funny, sad and true, all at the same time.

[pookie18]

Thanks, Nateman...will rerun on Thursday...

[Yardstick]

I think I saw a screen cap that showed Nancy opted to wear a commie red outfit today.