‘Nobody Wants to Vote for the Senate bill’ |
The Democratic spin explaining why polls show the public opposed to their health care bill is that voters actually like the individual pieces of the bill but have been turned off by the messy process. |
But it appears that Democrats are ignoring their own findings. Last week, President Obama backed away from his earlier demand that lawmakers’ special deals be stripped out of the bill. Then there’s Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who yesterday endorsed a parliamentary maneuver under which the House would “deem” the Senate’s health care bill approved without the House voting on it. |
| House Budget Committee approves reconciliation bill |
| The House Budget Committee voted 21 to 16 to send the health care legislation to the House Rules Committee. That panel is expected to meet Thursday to draft new language for the reconciliation bill, compiling a package of fixes to the $875 billion measure that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. |
| A key House committee voted Monday to advance President Obama’s plan to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, clearing the way for the House to vote on the measure later this week. |
| A key House committee voted Monday to advance President Obama’s plan to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, clearing the way for the House to vote on the measure later this week. |
| President Obama is in denial on the American public’s rejection of his health care proposals |
There is no point, and great danger, in attempting to talk with President Obama about health care reform until he first agrees that the House and Senate health care bills are dead.
Republicans have not killed his bills.
The American people have rejected them, from their knowledge of the details of the Democrats’ plans.Read more at www.rrleader.com |
Obama vs. Obama: Cost of President’s Health Care Plan Goes Up as Taxpayer Savings Go Down
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| SIX MONTHS AGO: President Obama proposed a bill that would cost “around $900 billion” and reduce deficits by $4 trillion |
| TODAY: President Obama introduces his latest health care plan that will cost $950 billion and reduce deficits by “about” $1.1 trillionRead more at www.gop.gov |
WASHINGTON — In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power. |
| The first is the projected deficit in the coming year, nearly 11 percent of the country’s entire economic output. |
| But the second number, buried deeper in the budget’s projections, is the one that really commands attention: By President Obama’s own optimistic projections, American deficits will not return to what are widely considered sustainable levels over the next 10 years. |
| Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political compromises, creates some unforeseen change over the next decade, there is virtually no room for new domestic initiatives for Mr. Obama or his successors. |
| Beyond that lies the possibility that the United States could begin to suffer the same disease that has afflicted Japan over the past decade. As debt grew more rapidly than income, that country’s influence around the world eroded.Read more at www.nytimes.com |
President Obama: Lack of transparency a ‘mistake’ |
After weeks of denials from the White House that the health care reform effort failed to exhibit the transparency President Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail, Obama is conceding that locking the public out of key discussions was a “mistake.” |
“We had to make so many decisions quickly in a very difficult set of circumstances that after awhile, we started worrying more about getting the policy right than getting the process right,” Obama told ABC’s Diane Sawyer Monday. “But I had campaigned on process—part of what I had campaigned on was changing how Washington works, opening up, transparency. …The health care debate as it unfolded legitimately raised concerns not just among my opponents, but also amongst supporters that we just don’t know what’s going on. And it’s an ugly process and it looks like there are a bunch of back room deals.” Read more at www.politico.com |
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