If this is an act on the part of the Blue Dogs – it’s a good one. According to Jake Tapper there is a Blue Dog Rebellion, even after being summoned to the White House.
At 5:54 pm ET the news came: “The Energy and Commerce Markup of H.R. 3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act for 7-22-09 has been CANCELLED.
Not a good sign for the Democrats trying to report the bill out from committee onto the floor for a vote. Seven conservative blue dog Democrats on the committee have said they can’t vote for the bill in its current form. Some of those Blue Dogs came to the White House today for a 2 1/2 meeting, an hour of which was with President Obama. [...]
In the last nine days the president has spoken publicly about health care reform nine times. Tomorrow night, in a prime time press conference, will make it 10 times in 10 days.
But despite this push it seemed less likely today that Democrats would be able to come together to agree on an actual bill.
President Obama is asking these Blue Dogs to run on their swords for him. Political suicide probably wasn’t what they had in mind when they came to Washington. Maybe John Boehner was right.
“There are some members on the Democrat side that got both arms broken during the cap-and-trade fight on the floor, now there’re no more arms to break. That’s why they’re having problems.”
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