A little sign of hope for your Wednesday morning. Nancy Pelosi’s going to have an uphill battle to get the votes she needs to pass the health care bill in the House. They have to pass the Senate bill as is, pass the “fixes” which will then be rammed through the Senate via reconciliation. It would be quite ugly, especially for vulnerable Democrats.
Byron York explains:
The original House health care bill passed last November by a 220 to 215 margin. But supporters have lost four votes since then. Democrat Rep. Robert Wexler has left the House, and Rep. Neil Abercrombie is expected to leave this week. Rep. John Murtha died, and Republican Rep. Joseph Cao, the only GOP lawmaker to vote for the bill, now says he will vote against the measure. That leaves Democrats with 216 votes, one short of the 217 it will take to pass. (That number is one less than the usual 218 because of the vacancies in the House.)
In addition, it’s thought that some number of Democrats who voted for the original bill will likely vote against the Senate version because it lacks the House bill’s language on the subject of abortion (the president’s proposed compromise doesn’t help on that subject, either). Republicans estimate there may be 11 such Democrats. If there are, that takes the number down to 205, which means Speaker Nancy Pelosi will need to find a dozen “yes” votes to make up the difference. It is widely thought that she had some possible yes votes in reserve last November, to be used if they were absolutely essential to passage. Are there 12? No one knows.
And that doesn’t begin to consider the Democrats who voted in favor of the House bill last November but have now finally been persuaded, by continued public opposition in the polls, the Senate election in Massachusetts, and the generally worsening political climate for Democrats, that another vote in favor of the wildly unpopular health bill would be suicidal. Can Pelosi really be willing to bet that she can get everyone who originally voted yes on the bill to vote yes again? And for the Democrats who originally voted against the bill — does anyone believe that any are going to change their minds to vote yes?
I won’t relax until ObamaCare is dead, but this is a good sign.
Via memeorandum
We know they won’t stop until they cram this through. Let’s just hope they can’t get the votes.
Then Obummer will probably just issue an executive order.
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I won’t relax until this administration is historical. I think Obama doesn’t really care if he is a one termer. In pushing as radically hard left as possible on all fronts, regardless of opposition or polls, he might just make it so that the Dems have calculated this and plan on an open 2012 presidential race, Obama not running. It’ll be their way of wiping the slate clean and attempting to assuage fears and dupe the voting public into voting for an “anti Obama” progressive candidate, with new phony rhetoric and further hidden agendas to damage America.
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