Even CBS News recognizes Obama’s “bipartisan” health care summit for what it is. A political tool wielded to get the Republicans to surrender. Now, an aide to Nancy Pelosi all but admitted it.
President Barack Obama has proposed a bipartisan health care summit for later this month that Republican detractors bill as a publicity stunt designed to generate more support for the flailing pro-abortion health care bill. Now, an aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi essentially admitted that’s the case.
In comments reported by Congress Daily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate’s pro-abortion, government-run health care bill.
Primus explained that the Senate will use the controversial reconciliation strategy that will have the House approve the Senate bill and both the House and Senate okaying changes to the bill that the Senate will sign off on by preventing Republicans from filibustering.
“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.
“There’s a certain skill, there’s a trick, but I think we’ll get it done,” he said.
Conservative columnist Connie Hair noted Primus’ remarks and called the reconciliation strategy and the White House health care summit two big “rope-a-dope” plays that are “just another in a long charade of dog and pony shows.”
I guess it’s time to get back on the phones.
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Unreal stuff. You know what LC? These people have turned ordinary citizens into activist (you, me and thousands of others). Keep exposing the truth!
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What’s controversial about reconciliation? It’s how the Republican congress passed many of budget bills for the last decade. It was used in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006 to pass the republican budget items, including cuts to medicare, student loans and social security; tax cuts for top earners; and more. Republican Senator Judd Gregg spoke about reconciliation in 2005: “We are using the rules of the Senate here. Is there something wrong with majority rules? I don’t think so.” Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, also in 2005: “I prefer regular order, but recent tax legislative history in the Senate suggests the reconciliation option is an important tool to have at our disposal.” Resorting to majority rules is a sad byproduct of a polarized 2-party political system. maybe if we had more real parties, so the political games were less lopsided, would make a difference. Complaining about one side using the process that allows motion when the opposition isn’t cooperating seems like sour grapes, or maybe it’s just a lack of awareness of recent history.
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[...] Did anyone really think Obama’s Health Care Summit was legit? After a year of denying access to the health care reform debate, after having House and Senate Democrats write a 2700 page government take over of health care that Obama’s Health Care Summit was nothing more than the “Beer” Summit with out the beer? Share This [...]
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While health is wealth most of our people no good health and it is the reality that they have no wealth to keep health well. To keep good health we also need wealth. Health is wealth? Not always that!
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