30 peices of silver
Posted on 07/30/2009 5:29:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Congress: In exchange for a vague promise of cuts in the cost of health care "reform," a few fiscally conservative Democrats agree to release the bill to a September floor vote. Have the pit bulls become Chihuahuas?
Ross, a Blue Dog Coalition leader, said changes agreed to by the defectors and the leadership would cut the cost of the trillion-dollar House bill by almost $100 billion over the next decade. What the cuts are remains unknown, and in the past such promises of cuts have been like Lucy offering to hold the football one more time for Charlie Brown. In exchange, for their consciences, there won't be a floor vote before September.
There are additional parts to the deal. The compromise would allow states to create health "co-ops" that would also compete with a government-run "public option" and private insurers. Rates on the "public option" would not be tied to Medicare, but separately negotiated. Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman agreed to loosen the employer mandate so that it covered firms with payrolls over $500,000 rather than the original $400,000.
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The Blue Eyeshadow Democrats hold out for a higher price.
A shame, but no big surprise.
Rahm ‘dead fish’ Emmanuel recruited most of the so-called “blue dog Democrats” personally.
The Democrats have such a plurality that they can afford to lose some votes. They allow some of them to vote against a particular bill to preserve their reputations at home as ‘blue dogs’, AS LONG AS the bill passes anyway.
But when it comes to nut-crunchin’ time, if they need a vote, they just twist arms (1st choice) or bribe members (2nd choice) until they secure the votes they need.
The ‘blue dogs’ are really just ‘manchurian candidates’ by another name. They’re there to fool the public into thinking the Democratic party is centrist.
Nah, she’s a lunatic
“in exchange for a promise”
of millions, no doubt.
30 peices of silver
The problem is that the "bone" Waxman offered them is bribes that he will pay out of more of our tax dollars on top of the cost of this monstrocity!!
We need to make sure that the political cowards on BOTH sides of the aisle understand where the bribe money comes from and that they have surpassed the "enough-is-enough" limit!!!
LOL
Then they are OUT in 2010. They need to work on their Resumes.
So their bark IS worse than their bite. Well, this just sets up some great issues for the Republicans in 2010, as long as it’s a conservative running against the Blue Dog.
and congress says, 'so what?'
More payoff from the Republican voters who “showed THEM” in the 2008 elections by staying home.
Four of the seven who helped keep the House bill bottled up in the Energy and Commerce Committee -- Mike Ross of Arkansas, Baron Hill of Indiana, Zack Space of Ohio and Bart Gordon of Tennessee -- agreed to vote the bill out of committee in exchange for a promise of unspecified cuts. Ross, a Blue Dog Coalition leader, said changes agreed to by the defectors and the leadership would cut the cost of the trillion-dollar House bill by almost $100 billion over the next decade.IOW, over ten years, the bill will cost $100 billion a year, and these unspecified (i.e., non-existent) savings no more than $10 billion a year; and the actual cost will be something like $3 trillion over ten years.
Indeed
WOW!! I AM STUNED!! This is HUGH and SERIES!! Oh, what, oh, whatever shall we do now?!? [fans self rapidly to stave off a severe case of the vapors]
/sarc
Seriously, most people saw this coming, the same way day follows dawn!
Thing is, if it makes it outta the House, are there 67 Senators to vote for it? (he asked, thinking even some Dems would bolt on it before it ever came to be signed)
The reasonable side of my brain keeps thinking “this health care bill will never happen, it is insane”.
Then the hysterical side of my brain keeps screaming “it is gonna happen I am sure it’s gonna happen”.
I think I am becoming bipolar!
If Republicans going to vote for it, then you know they are the usual RINOs who always vote with the rats
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