{"id":16937,"date":"2010-01-22T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16937"},"modified":"2010-01-22T18:24:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T23:24:52","slug":"is-healthcare-really-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16937","title":{"rendered":"Is Healthcare Really Dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to National Review <\/a>Pelosi is planning to ram this monstrous piece of steaming shit through using the \u201cnuclear\u201d option or the budget reconciliation plan.<\/p>\n

Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, tells NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE that House Democrats are planning to use the budget-reconciliation process in order to pass Obamacare. \u201cThey\u2019re meeting with each other this weekend to pursue it,\u201d says Ryan. \u201cI\u2019ve spoken with many Democrats and the message is this: They\u2019re not ready to give up. They\u2019ve waited their entire adult lives for this moment and they aren\u2019t ready to let 100,000 pesky votes in Massachusetts get in the way of fulfilling their destiny. They\u2019ll look at every option and spend the next four or five days figuring it out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Politico<\/a> is reporting the contrasting \u201cnot so fast there Scooter\u201d story:<\/p>\n

House Democrats are angry with the Senate for passing a bill that divided their base, angering labor unions with a tax on expensive health plans and progressives by abandoning the public option. House members are frustrated that the Senate assumes they will roll over whenever the upper chamber demands it and that they took until late December to pass a bill. <\/p>\n

Rank-and-file Democrats would like more guidance from the White House, but some complained when rumors broke that chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was prodding lawmakers to move quickly to repackage a scaled-back bill. A White House source said Emanuel was just surveying members to see what they could accept.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats also worried that voters would judge them out-of-touch for devoting so much energy to health care now. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that Pelosi and Reid could shove the reconciliation plan but only Pelosi could survive that politically and Reid knows it.<\/p>\n

All of these recent elections are 100% a referendum on the administration regardless of who tells you different. Losing Virginia? Okay. Losing New Jersey? OMG! Losing Massachusetts? Never happen in a million years! Until it did.<\/p>\n

Here is another 19 reasons:<\/p>\n

Five Democrat Senators are retiring. <\/p>\n

Christopher Dodd of Connecticut
\n Ted Kaufman of Delaware
\n Roland Burris of Illinois
\n Paul Kirk of Massachusetts
\n Byron Dorgan of North Dakota <\/p>\n

Kirk is already gone, the Kaufman and Dorgan seats are leaning strong GOP. Illinois has a strong Republican contender and lots of buzz but with this much warning the ballots are already being cast in Cook County (early and often). Dodd\u2019s seat will get a lot of ink but even in this environment probably a safe Democrat seat.<\/p>\n

If the GOP picked up those three seats it would be amazing but that\u2019s not what Democrats are worried about. Here is there real problem.<\/p>\n

Democratic incumbents (14 seats)
\n Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas
\n Barbara Boxer of California
\n Michael Bennet of Colorado
\n Daniel Inouye of Hawaii
\n Evan Bayh of Indiana
\n Barbara Mikulski of Maryland
\n Harry Reid of Nevada
\n Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
\n Chuck Schumer of New York
\n Ron Wyden of Oregon
\n Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania
\n Patrick Leahy of Vermont
\n Patty Murray of Washington
\n Russ Feingold of Wisconsin <\/p>\n

On this entire list I see two really safe seats Inouye and Leahy; that\u2019s it. Just two.<\/p>\n

Are all of these seats going to flip? No but some will and they will all be competitive.<\/p>\n

More importantly seniority has its privileges and the (until recently) very safe seats like Boxer, Mikulski, Reid, Schumer and Feingold are going to consume huge amounts of cash from the Democrat coffers. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a military analogy to consider. Harry Reid is commanding a force of 60 men that have been ordered to attack an enemy strongpoint. Reid knows that he will lose at least 20% of his force to take the objective. Nobody likes those kinds of missions but hey it happens and the objective must still be taken. <\/p>\n

But what if the 20% knew the names of the casualties before the attack? That\u2019s exactly where Reid is right now and yes, his name is on the list. Think the vigor of this attack would be effected?<\/p>\n

Bottom Line: Health Care is dead (unless these people are truly retarded which is certainly possible). <\/p>\n

In any case this is poised to be the most entertaining mid-term election in recent memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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