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Heath Care Reform Thread

by BooMan
Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 09:16:34 AM EST

Well, I woke up, read my email, checked around the intertubes, read the mainstream articles in the Times and Post, and I know nothing more than when I went to sleep. All I can tell you is that they still haven't secured the 216 votes they need, and that the Stupak bloc is still relevant. Use this thread for any updates you can find.

Update [2010-3-20 11:22:9 by BooMan]: Caveat Emptor::

Stupak is 'Finished with Pelosi' [Robert Costa]
Two pro-life GOP members close to Stupak tell NRO that any Stupak deals are off. They just spoke with him and they said he's finished with Pelosi. They rejected his enrollment corrections proposal.

Heath Care Reform Thread | 12 comments (12 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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Aren't Pelosi and Stupak having separate press conferences in an hour? If they were together it would be good news. Separate makes one anxious. I want it to pass with 10 to spare instead of a one vote defeat or win. Damn, the Speaker of the House position is incredibly difficult with all these egos and idiots. It's not much different than trying to get a roomful of two years olds to behave.

by forus50 on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 09:59:54 AM EST

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Stupak just cancelled his 11am press conference.

by BooMan on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 10:45:28 AM EST
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Pelosi Going for Broke (none / 0)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Shoots Down Rep. Bart Stupak's 'Fix'

ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked about Bart Stupak's suggestion that there could be another bill to address abortion funding and she said, "I haven't heard any of that."

"If you don't want federal funding for abortion... and you want to have a health care bill," she said. "This is it."

She said members may be talking about various things and dismissively mentioned Stupak's name, adding, "But right now we are just getting votes to pass a bill."

"This bill is about health care and not about abortion," Pelosi said. "There will be no further changes in the bill."

Health care overhaul fight exposes Catholic rift

House Democrats see momentum on health bill

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

by Oui on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 10:33:36 AM EST

Re: Pelosi Going for Broke (none / 0)

That's yesterday's story, and so about 1000 years out of date.

by gideon on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 10:39:06 AM EST
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How many of these peckerheads are actually concerned about abortion, and how many of them are looking for a clean way to kill a bill they can't stand because they're basically Republicans and the very idea of social provision pisses them off?

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. J.K. Galbraith

by Davis X Machina on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 10:57:02 AM EST

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I believe the count is 30 peckerheads. :)

by forus50 on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 11:14:24 AM EST
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26 and counting.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/16/us/politics/20100316-health-care-dems.html?ref=us

by forus50 on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 11:17:17 AM EST
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Fuck Stupak. I hope Pelosi told him to go down to the town clerk and change his party affiliation.

by Ed J on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 11:29:00 AM EST

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I wish the Bluedogs would do that, I don't understand why they are in the Democratic party. Plain and simple.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 12:27:37 PM EST
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Pelosi confirms that Stupak can go fuck himself.

by BooMan on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 12:44:05 PM EST

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Stupak is as Stupak does! (Forest Gump reference)

by LiberalForReal on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 02:21:48 PM EST

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Our blue dogs say they'll vote yes!

Hill, Ellsworth to vote yes on health care
INDIANAPOLIS -- U.S. Rep. Baron Hill, D-9th District, said Saturday that he will vote for the federal health care bill because the current system has "failed hard-working Hoosier families" while allowing insurance companies to act reprehensibly.
Hill said he chooses "to stand with those that have been shortchanged for far too long."
He joins Rep. Brad Ellsworth, D-8th District, who announced Friday that he also will support the bill.

"I never trust people who don't laugh." Maya Angelou, March 5, 2009

by Indianadem on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 04:06:53 PM EST

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