If you listen to Nancy Pelosi you’re probably beside yourself thinking of how to retain your current health insurance for life. Quick! Take out that home equity loan while you still can! Oops, sorry – I forgot they destroyed the real estate market. Maybe you could try cashing those checks your credit cards send you and stuffing the cash under your mattress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has the votes to pass legislation overhauling the U.S. health- care system as Democratic Party leaders moved closer to an agreement with rebellious members of their own party.
Leaders are “making progress” with Democrats who want more cost cuts in the legislation, Pelosi told reporters in Washington today, a day after President Barack Obama met with a group of Democrats to try to convince them to back the plan.
“I have no question we have the votes on the floor of the House to pass this legislation,” Pelosi said.
Let me talk you off the ledge – don’t despair just yet. We all know politicians lie, right? Well, someone’s lying. We just need to know who.
But a leading conservative “Blue Dog” Democrat told ABC News that claim is questionable.
“No, I don’t think they have the votes,” Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said, arguing if that were the case he and the other six Blue Dogs on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who have been holding up the bill in committee would be under far less pressure.
Ross says the concerns Blue Dogs have about the current House bill being too expensive and not doing enough to contain health care costs are widespread.
“We’re speaking for a silent majority within the Democratic caucus,” he said. “The American people want us to slow down and they want us to get it right.”
Someone is lying. Soon enough we will know who it is. Until then go ahead and light up the phone lines. Call (202) 224-3121 and say NO to ObummerCare!
