Posted on 01/19/2010 10:42:10 PM PST by Senator Goldwater
Republican Scott Brown’s upset win in Massachusetts Tuesday threatened to derail any hopes of passing a health reform bill this year, as the White House and Democratic leaders faced growing resistance from rank-and-file members to pressing ahead with a bill following the Bay State backlash.
Democratic leaders insisted they planned to press ahead with health reform, and met late into Tuesday night in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. But they made no decisions about how to proceed, now that Brown has swept away the Democrats’ filibuster-proof 60-vote majority in the Senate.
Their options are few, and extremely complex, mostly involving legislative tactics that would be difficult to pull off in the best of circumstances, let alone at a time when members are worried they could be the next Martha Coakley – a seeming Democratic shoo-in laid low, in part, by health reform.
And already Tuesday night, Democrats were being forced to come to terms with the prospect that their decades-long goal of health reform might once again fall short, despite getting closer to becoming law than ever before.
Pelosi insisted Democrats could still make it happen. "We will get the job done. I am confident of that. I have always been confident of that," she told reporters as she left the Capitol at 11:30 p.m.
"Massachusetts has health care and so the rest of the country would like to have that too," Pelosi said, referring to the state’s health care program. "So we don't [think] a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should."
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Suggestion to the fascists: Let the other States decide for themselves just like MA did.
Screenplay...
Scot Brown (as Harvey Dent)
Mitt Romney (as mobster)
Dent: Flips coin... “You’re a lucky man...” Flips coin... “He’s not...” Buckling up...
Mobster: “Who?”
Dent: “Your driver...”
Seems from recent history that power and greed have the same destructive effects as a person O’Ding on several hits of LSD. Something akin to the psychotic deterioration of the mind and soul.
“Massachusetts has health care and so the rest of the country would like to have that too,” Pelosi said”
I think we saw how much they like it yesterday.
“The most stupid remark:
“... we will never get this economy under any kind of control until we get health care costs under control,” Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said.”
Cart-before-horse...”
The Demonrats have been trying to get a cart to pull a horse for decades.
Yes, I want them replaced with conservative people.
If they were all to be replaced with conservatives we wouldn’t need to worry about being “placated”
I guess she can't read very well. A large majority of Americans DO NOT want nationalized health insurance(calling it health care is a lie).
Also she is taking a dig at Mass residents saying, in effect, that they have government run health insurance so they don't care if America as a whole has it, totally missing the fact that they already know what a disaster it is.
Hey, Nancy, we don't want Bozo's BS, any of it, and this election proves it. Just keep digging crazy Nan and we in CA will muster the votes to throw you out.
Yeah, I understand, but it was the third straight thread that I had opened with the same post on it. No problem and happy FReeping.
LOL!
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