Healthcare Vote in October?
Breitbart got the money quote in paragraph two.
President Barack Obama said Wednesday there will be no vote on his proposed reforms of the US healthcare system before autumn, a setback that is costing him more political capital with each passing day.
“This bill, even in the best-case scenario, will not be signed — we won’t even vote on it probably until the end of September or the middle of October,” he said in a session here to muster public support for the reforms.
I think we can now say that this motley crew of malicious morons are officially just throwing shit against the wall.
When a crisis happens competent people focus, amateurs panic and believe me this is starting to look like the gang that couldn’t shoot straight or more aptly, the gang that couldn’t count its balls twice and get the same number.
So what’s the panic? I mean a real crisis not this made-up crap they keep trying to inflame.
Maybe it’s this most recent Wall Street Journal Poll.
In the new poll, conducted July 24 to July 27, 42% called it a bad idea while 36% said it was a good idea.
Among those with insurance, the proportion calling the plan a bad idea rose to 47% from 37%.
The declining popularity of health-care overhaul appeared to be fueled by rising anxiety over the federal budget deficit and concerns over the role of government in determining personal medical decisions.
Mr. Obama, in response, is shifting his pitch to consumer protection and new rules on insurance companies, part of a bid to win over Americans who already have coverage.
This is important because Obama bought off the AMA promising a bonus on Medicare reimbursements. He bought off the AARP by basically promising to make it an unregulated insurance company. And yet the folks are turning on this like Michael Vick on a dog that won’t fight.
Now Obama’s lips were moving when he said October so it’s difficult to tell if there is a grain of truth in it. However, if this is pushed back to October, it is dead.
October begins the campaigning for real for the 2010 congressional elections. Any “blue dog” supporting it that late should be getting their resumes together. But that’s not Barry and Rahm’s real problem if this thing goes that late.
The magic compromise that got the blue dogs in line earlier today was a promise of no mandatory government option. This may prove to be problematic.
Over 80 socialists in the “Progressive” caucus signed a pledge in May promising that they would not support any healthcare legislation that did not include a robust mandatory government option.
Historically, blue dogs can be bought off but those progressives are the true ideological socialists and far more difficult to deal with. This is largely because not only are they raging bat shit lunatics but they represent districts full of brain dead socialists.
Of course everything I just wrote is already fully ensconced in the pinhead of Rahm Emanuel and we are all aware that this man is capable of almost anything.
Interesting times in deed.
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Yessirree…
Interesting times indeed.
I wonder if any of the pinheads in the West Wing have checked their polling data against those massive spikes in rifle and ammunition sales….. 🙂
Historically, blue dogs can be bought off but those progressives are the true ideological socialists and far more difficult to deal with. This is largely because not only are they raging bat shit lunatics but they represent districts full of brain dead socialists.
I hear ya but, at heart, they are **all**, to a man and woman, liars and would sell their wives, children, parents and, of course, the American public in the name of political expediency.
I am afraid you are lulling yourself into a false sense of security if you believe that the socialists are going to stick to their word for any longer than they have to.
I’ve already emailed all my Kongress Kritters to vote a big, fat NO on this, with various reasons, and alternatives. We’ll see what happens.
Here is part of what I sent, the heart of it all (to me, anyway). I’m paraphrasing, as the original is at home (ah-hem).
Every one talks as if this were an accepted thing, that just needs a minor tweak here & there to make it acceptable to everyone.
But I want to ask, WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DOES IT GIVE THE GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT, THE AUTHORITY, AND THE MANDATE to even be in the health care business in the first place??
I hope they read that particular part and take it to heart, and ask others, and pass it on. THIS, as one of my college profs used to say, is the meat of the sandwich.