AP : Public option is dead

Hot Air ^ | November 08, 2009 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

Nancy Pelosi may have been all smiles on Saturday, but the difficulties encountered in her full-court press on the ObamaCare bill will only get worse, the AP reports this morning. The AP declares the public option dead, thanks to skeptical Democrats, and Joe Lieberman pledges to stop the bill from coming to the floor with one included. The LA Times concurs:

House approval of legislation Saturday — even if Democrats can move it no further — was an accomplishment that has eluded presidents for decades. But the close vote and the exertions it took to secure a majority were laden with warning signs as the issue moves to the Senate.

Even though the House is a bastion of liberalism, the healthcare overhaul was a tougher sell than expected and the bill turned out to be more conservative in its price tag, more limited in the scope of its government-run insurance option and tighter in its restrictions on abortion funding than many Democrats had hoped.

[RobinMasters]

Ping.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

It ain’t over ‘til the ‘fat lady sings’. And I mean SINGS....her heart out.

[MNJohnnie]

No, this is the media sucker play. Tell Conservatives they won to get them to back off the pressure while the arm twisiting goes on in the Senate.

Until the votes are signed sealed and counted, this PO is still alive

[stanz]

Can we take this to the bank? (This will probably be the only thing I may ever take to the bank again.....)

[SolidWood]

It ain’t over until 2010, when we throw out the bums, traitors, thiefs and crooks.

[LIConFem]

"But the close vote and the exertions extortions it took to secure a majority were laden with warning signs..."

There... fixed it.

[GeronL]

believe no-one.

ever.

this is never dead.

They could slip this into some obscure bill later

[COUNTrecount]

A.P.
Affirming Pelosi.

[domenad]

Here's hoping, because far more than 2 Dems will vote against the house bill if it doesn't have a public option, so maybe this will be the death knell.

There's really something wrong with government when I have to root for paralysis and gridlock.

[orinoco]

Absolutely! Pelosi and here socialist comrades declared war on our free markets and on our Constitution.

[Marie]

The media said it would never pass the house.

[Frantzie]

It is not dead until we drive a stake through the ObamaCare Soylent Green bill.

[originalbuckeye]

Smokescreen so we will take our eyes off the ball. The head fake in football........please remember to keep your eyes on his belt buckle....he can’t go anywhere without his middle. WE MUST STOP this ‘Reform’ that will bankrupt our country.

[GunningForTheBuddha]

That's right Conservatives, you can now go back to your lives and pay no more attention to the man behind the curtain... Fat chance chuckleheads

[hoosier hick]

There's really something wrong with government when I have to root for paralysis and gridlock.

Sometimes I think that is the best you can hope for, regardless of which party controls Congress....

hh

[mad_as_he$$]

Winner!

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Don't be fooled by the giant Kabuki dance that's going on for the benefit of the rubes and the manipulation by media players like AP. First, there will be a tremendous amount of posturing in and around the Senate about what's in, what's out, etc. The Senate bill, when initially passed will not have the public option in it. However, all the dirty work will be done in the House-Senate conference. Abortion-funding will be put back as well as the public option. When it comes out of conference, it goes right to the floor for a vote in the House and Senate. Those votes will happen in the dead of night. The dems will use reconciliation in the Senate if they have to to pass it with a simple majority. Who knows what other rules they will toss out to ram it through.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Nancy Pelosi!....you ignorant slut!

[Candor7]

P O is not dead. Leftist Sentors are tasked to revive it.

There will be a battle royal in the Senate.

And the Dems are sending forth their tentacles to use all the smut they have collected on each Senator to force their vote.Blackmail vote is now being organized.