Posted on 03/09/2010 8:07:38 PM PST by maggief
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to stop assigning deadlines to Congress for finishing the health care reform bill.
In a House-Senate leadership meeting on health care Tuesday, she essentially told Emanuel to "cool it," according to one Hill Democratic aide -- an account confirmed by a second aide.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman told reporters that lawmakers made it clear to Emanuel that "we don't feel that we want any deadline assigned to us."
"We want to pass the bill," Waxman said. "We don't feel we have to have any particular deadline."
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has said that the president wants the House to pass the Senate health care bill by March 18, before he leaves for an overseas trip, and for the Senate to take up the reconciliation bill by Easter.
But those demands have been met with annoyance on the Hill, where Democrats have been unable to meet deadlines on health reform -- and mocked by Republicans in the process.
Another trick or are RE’s days numbered?
Ping.
keep cannibalizing each other, you scumbags.
Who’s Nancy kidding, she just wants him to show up naked in her shower. It would serve them both right.
Alienation in action.....
Naked Rahm is cracken the whip on the butts of congress.
Next on the Playboy Channel ;)
When Obama’s preening arrogance pisses off even the likes of Pelosi and Waxman.............that IS amazing.
“We want to pass the bill,” Waxman said. “We don’t feel we have to have any particular deadline.”
In other words, they’ll keep on until they pass it.
Watch out, San Fran Nan...you might just find an angry Rahm in your shower very soon!
I sincerely doubt he’ll try to poke you, though.
Pelosi wishes Rahm would at least be naked when he comes around poking her in her wrinkled bony chest.
Lets send Congress home during Easter break and see what the folks have to say. Tea anyone?
Needs more lamp.
There’s nothing “democratic” about the Communist Party. I really wish people would stop calling them that.
I took it as Nancy is nowhere near having the votes. As I reported on another thread, Paul Ryan was on with Greta and said that old Nancy girl is great at making last-minute deals...he says it’s 50-50 on passing right now. He’s a gem, by the way.
Also, she should prepare to receive a dead fish.
The DEMS are boxed in. What to do? Pass an no abortion funding bill in House and Senate the disallows the Senate abortion language in future bills before passing the Senate Health Care bill. Sure as long as we disallow the current health care bills in that bill. No problem. Pass the reconcilation bill before passing the bill to reconcile. Whatever. The DEMS are in a pickle. Seems like the most likely route is for the House to pass the Senate bill and be done with it. I have no idea how that will turn out.
lol
she doesn’t have the votes.
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