Health care in trouble
Conservative Democrat Mike Ross warns today that there will have to be significant changes to the Obama health plan before it’ll get out of his committee, according to Fox News;
Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., who chairs the Blue Dogs’ health care task force, said the group would need to see significant changes to protect small businesses and rural providers and contain costs before it could sign on. “We cannot support the current bill,” he said. The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Blue Dogs met Wednesday to consider what amendments they would offer, and the panel scheduled vote sessions daily through next Wednesday in what promised to be an arduous process to reach consensus.
The key to defeating this whole plan doesn’t pivot on the Republicans, it rests on how painful it’ll be next year for Democrats in their own districts. The Republicans have made themselves irrelevant to the politics of this thing, so it’s up to people in Democrat-held districts to phone and mail.
Of course, if we’re going to continue to be bogged down in ancillary BS….
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Liberals suck, Politics
I listen to lefty talk shows whenever I can pick them up. Ed Shultz gets all pissy about Blue Dog Democrats being concerned with where the hell the money will come from. The talking head jabbers about “fear of socialism.” and “how great socialised health care is in other industrial countries” BUT is patently silent about cost & the relevance of the mongo deficit towards this “entitlement & human right” thingy is.
He yakked on his microphone that he wanted Obama to get “Chicago style politics” on the Blue Dogs, yet I find myself a little taken back by that. Actually visited the South Side of Chicago, Obama’s old Senatorial district, once & it just didn’t look to pretty, except for Farrakhan’s compound… None of the stores had public restrooms either. The whole lack of earth shattering accomplishment in S.Side Chicago kind of makes me wonder what the basis for hope-n-change is???