{"id":13842,"date":"2009-08-20T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13842"},"modified":"2009-08-20T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:48:16","slug":"this-whole-healthcare-thing-would-be-in-deep-shit-if%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13842","title":{"rendered":"This Whole Healthcare Thing Would be in Deep Shit If\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2026there was a spoonful of integrity in the entire Congress.<\/p>\n

This right here is getting fun, I don\u2019t care who you are.<\/p>\n

Pelosi is in full communist mode on the public option and is promising to stand her ground<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a news conference in San Francisco, Pelosi told reporters that a public option will “keep insurance companies honest.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way I can pass a bill in the House of Representatives without a public option,\u201d the California Democrat said, according to wire reports. “Unless someone comes up with a better idea, that’s how we’re going forth in the House.”<\/p>\n

Pelosi reportedly added: “If someone can come up with a better idea, let them put it on the table, we haven’t heard that yet. … So we’re fighting very hard for the public option.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This Bill has to originate in the House and the Speaker says it won\u2019t get a floor vote without a public option.<\/p>\n

And the President himself today Guaranteed a victory in healthcare reform.<\/p>\n

“I guarantee you … we are going to get health care reform done. And I know that there are a lot of people out there who have been hand-wringing, and folks in the press are following every little twist and turn of the legislative process,” Obama told a caller to Philadelphia-based radio talk show host Michael Smerconish during a broadcast from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room.<\/a><\/p>\n

The only problem is\u2026<\/p>\n

Meantime, the Senate seems likely to drop the controversial plan from any bill it proposes. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-S.D.), a key negotiator on the Finance Committee, has emphatically said there aren’t enough votes in the Senate to approve a bill with a government-run option.<\/p>\n

“It’s very clear that there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option,” Conrad said Thursday on Fox Business Network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has the makings of some terrific political theater if all of these Dems had the honor to stand on their principals. But they don\u2019t and never intended to. The plan was fairly simple. Start by re-naming it, pork it up a bit, cut a few more illegal deals like the White House did with the pharmaceutical industry, pork it up some more at 3:00 am and then ram it through.<\/p>\n

At least that was the plan until the citizens rose up and pushed the criminals off their timeline and in this case the timeline is everything.<\/p>\n

You see Democrats always claim to be falling on their swords and wind up falling in line. Even the so-called Blue Dogs (I prefer to call them card tables) talk a big game but always back up the socialists when it matters.<\/p>\n

This time might be different. Here is why.<\/p>\n

It is often hard to figure out what a Democrat really stands for but one thing is for sure. They all want to stay in power. And this issue has put some big Democrats in jeopardy of losing the only job most of them ever would be able to hold for more than two months. Not to mention losing the ability to make themselves and their immediate family members millionaires. <\/p>\n

When you have heavy weights like Harry Reid and Chris Dodd in deep shit, you can count on these two clowns to do all that is possible to keep their jobs. The problem is that in order to do that Reid has to lurch right in Nevada and Dodd has to lurch left in Connecticut. Starting to see the Obama dilemma here? <\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see what happens but there are two things I know.<\/p>\n

1. The Republicans absolutely must avoid falling for some bullshit re-naming exercise like co-ops or anything else.
\n2. The Obama White House is in full panic mode and he knows his entire presidency rides on this.<\/p>\n

Keep the popcorn and beer handy the fun is not over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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