Posted on 12/10/2009 6:02:31 PM PST by Libloather
Speaker Pelosi: We would do 'almost anything' to pass healthcare this year
By Mike Soraghan - 12/10/09 12:00 PM ET
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) laid out a scenario Thursday in which the massive overhaul of the nation's health system could pass by the end of the year.
If the Senate were to pass a bill by next Thursday, Dec. 17, she said, the House and Senate could conduct a conference committee during the next weekend and pass it before New Year's Day.
“I think we would do almost anything if it meant we would pass healthcare for all Americans before the Christmas holidays,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference. “It may be that we can’t, and it will have to be a New Year's present to the American people. But as soon as we can, we will.”
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Wednesday that the talk among members was that the bill could be added to the omnibus appropriations bill and passed during the holidays, even between Christmas and New Year's Day. He said that that line of thought included adding an increase in the nation's debt limit. It would be more difficult to vote against the spending bill, even with healthcare and more debt, because it includes funding for members' pet projects and money for the military.
“Then some could say, 'You're not supporting the troops,’” Stupak explained.
But the scenario Stupak recounted also included the House passing the Senate bill without changes, a process called "pingpong."
But Pelosi dismissed reports that the House would skip a conference committee and pass the Senate version of the bill as unlikely. Asked about the chances of that scenario unfolding, she said, "Not much.
“We would like to see a full conference,” she said.
The House version of the bill includes a “public health insurance option,” a government-run plan intended to compete with private plans and lower premiums. The Senate is moving away from that concept and is looking at a plan to allow people as young as 55 to obtain Medicare coverage.
Pelosi had said she wouldn’t be able to pass a bill through her chamber initially without such a public option, but throughout the months of House debates she carefully avoided any such definitive statements about final passage or a conference committee with the Senate. She had said she wanted a strong public option in the House bill to give her a stronger bargaining position with the Senate.
Even the House liberals who demanded a “robust” public option in the House version didn't draw a line in the sand for final passage.
"What I have said is ... we believe the public option is the best way to keep insurance companies honest and increase competition," Pelosi said. "If you have a better way, put it on the table."
Wrapped into discussions about the House schedule is the prospect that Pelosi might lead a congressional delegation to the Copenhagen summit on climate change. Pelosi has described climate change as her "flagship" issue and hopes to make the trip.
The official House calendar has the House working as late as Tuesday, Dec. 22. But Pelosi said Thursday the House is set to finish its work by Wednesday, Dec. 16. Finishing by then would allow her to travel to Copenhagen.
“It's a very important meeting,” Pelosi said. “I hope we'll be able to spend a few days there.”
If I poo on a plate, Nancy ,will you eat it?
“I think we would do almost anything....”
Spoken like an SF Bay whore...
If she votes for this “reform” bill, then she already has eaten it.
Nancy, could I interest you in assisted suicide?
Nancy... Would you commit genocide?
We know the answer to that one. Her plan is genocide.
Waste of good sh_t.LOL.
Dear Santa,
Al I want for Christmas is an end to this nonsense. KILL THE BILL.
What the left want is tio get their hands on the saved wealth of the baby boomer generation. This Health Care Bill is their ticket to get it.
Genocide is right. Denny treatment to boomers, make them use their savings tio live, and then charge them 10 times the going rate for procedures that poh folk will pay for the same thing.Pocket the difference.
Simple plan.Genocide.
Almost anything? Does that include things with other species or life forms?
Oh, give your fascism a rest, Nazi.
Oh, give your fascism a rest, Nazi.
Who knows? She does a good bark.
“Speaker Pelosi: We would do ‘almost anything’ to pass healthcare this year”
Translation: The end justifies the means.
Why is it only the innocent people that fall in the shower and break a hip.
Really.
I will.
And we Americans would do almost anything to put you, Pelosi, in jail this year.
1.) Their numbers are bad, they have to do a "cram through".
2.) They need their "60" in the Senate
3.)They need to do this before 1/19/2010....
4.) Why that day? It is the Kennedy Special Election, what if Scott Brown (R) wins in Mass?
That will be devistating, effectively signaling the political end of Paxius-Obama.
A political prognosticator on this end, that called 94' almost to the numbers, called Sarah's rise and that McCains only chance was her. My political gut feel is telling me this is what is really going on.
It was mentioned that she engaged in vacuum generating activities beginning in her early teens that earned her the sobriquet of "Hoover."
This explains the relatively small size of her frame and the necessity also for continuing botox treatments to fight deflation.
Vacuum reflux is a serious decease and is widely prevalent in leftist female politicians. It its more extreme cases the brain reaches a minuscule size, as you indicated, and the whole body disappears shortly after death,rendering impossible an open casket funeral, and scientists theorize that there us a direct metaphysical connection to the nearest singularity or black hole. In this case, that would be Barak Hussein Obama.
When queried, Pelosi was caught off guard and exclaimed, " The World sucks!"
Wrongo. Nancy, you suck!
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