Pelosi: There Aren't Enough Votes To Pass The Senate Bill

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just told reporters that she does not believe she has enough votes in the House to pass the Senate health care reform bill as-is -- at least not yet.

"I don't see the votes for it at this time," Pelosi said. "The members have been very clear in our caucus about the fact that they didn't like it before it had the Nebraska provision and some of the other provisions that are unpalatable to them." ...

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January 21, 2010 12:00 PM    in reply to  Steve LaBonne

Which developments should we wait for? This healthcare bill could have and should have been completed in August of last year, as Obama called for.

In an election year, things are only more difficult, because the normally skittish Democrats become even more cowardly; they're not going to move on this anytime soon. Additionally, that will lead to further disillusionment among the Democratic base and general electorate, which will lead to the loss of more Democratic seats. Obviously, fewer Democratic seats make the "math" on passing a bill even more difficult. [And if disillusionment is substantial enough, you could potentially kiss the majorities in one or both Houses good-bye.]

I don't think it's an over-reaction to say that healthcare reform is dead. And again, Democrats -- not Republicans -- have killed it.


January 21, 2010 11:45 AM   

Don't the Dems realize that you can't run on your superior competence and then fail at the things that matter? The Congressional Dems have looked so inept and captive to moneyed interests and self-involved that they are going to deserve the fate they get in November.

Never have I been so disappointed in the party I have supported all my life (first vote for LBJ). Compare how the GOP spun their historic defeat in NY 23 into a victory with the Dems' spinning the loss to Brown as a massive rejection of change. I think Josh's post about Obama thinking he was elected because he was so awesome and not because people really did want change and especially competent governance is dead on. What a bunch of cowards.

Since the GOP doesn't really offer an alternative, I fear that the result of having two dying parties is more apathy and withdrawal from citizenship. Combined with the Supreme Court decision opening the way for Fox News to do a Berlusconi I really think we are at the brink here.


January 21, 2010 12:06 PM   

Serious changes are going to have to be made in our political system or we are looking at a lifetime of de facto conservative Republican control. It is becoming painfully clearer to me day by day that the Democrats simply do not have what it takes to govern effectively. They are an empty shell of a party, able to accomplish nearly nothing, and people do not vote for parties that get nothing done; not their supporters, not independents, nobody. Its almost as if they got to power, realized they can't handle it, and are now trying to cede power back to the Republicans by making the stupidest political moves in recent memory just so they don't have to make decisions about anything of importance. Their cowardice and lack of conviction is really awe-inspiring to me. At this point I really couldn't care less if Republicans take back control of Congress in November because they practically control it now.
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