He told the House he wants them to vote on the Senate bill by March 18.
The Hill: Pressed on what would be done by March 18, Gibbs said the first step would be for the House to pass the Senate’s original healthcare bill.
“I think this is going to get done in the next couple of weeks,” Gibbs added.
In an address on Wednesday, Obama said Congress should give healthcare an up-or-down vote, signaling his support for a process in which the House would pass the Senate-approved bill. The House and Senate would then pass a package of fixes to that legislation, with the package considered in the Senate under budget reconciliation rules, preventing Republicans from forcing a supermajority vote on the measure.
He’s issuing threats.
Politico: Two senior administration officials said the White House is telling Democrats reconsidering their support for health care reform that they will pay the price for their original vote no matter what happens, so they should reap the political benefits of actually passing a law.
There are 59 senators and 216 House members who put themselves on the record in support of the Democratic plan for health care reform. And the way the White House and Democratic leaders see it, they have little choice but to vote for it again: Think John Kerry, and his immortal words about an Iraq war appropriations bill – that he was for it before he was against it.
“Flip-flopping is dangerous in this business,” said a senior Senate Democratic aide familiar with the strategy.
And there’s no guarantee the promised “fixes” to the Senate bill will ever happen.
The Hill: The White House may renege on passing fixes to the Senate’s healthcare bill once the House has passed it, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) claimed Thursday.
Gregg, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, suggested that President Barack Obama may back off making changes to the Senate bill through the reconciliation process, which the White House and the Senate have said they would use to make changes to the Senate bill in order to placate House members.
“They’re using reconciliation to pass the great big bill,” Gregg said during an appearance on CNBC. “Once they pass the great big bill, I wouldn’t be surprised if the White House didn’t care if reconciliation passed. I mean, why would they?”
Gregg makes perfect sense. As Another Black Conservative points out, he’s just stating the obvious. We all know Obama will stop at nothing to pass his beloved ObamaCare. Once the Senate bill makes it through the House, why go to the trouble of reconciliation and fixes? Obama likes the bill just the way it is.
Via memeorandum
The promise of something better at a later date is a ploy that hookers use.
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Barak Obama is like Jim Jones……..I bet he could get them to committ suicide if he needed them to do that.
Progressivism is a cult being led now by one Barak Obama.
Scary stuff.
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Incidently I have committed myself to send money to democrats who vote against this health care bill for their reelection bid.
They deserve to be rewarded for making that hard choice.
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