Health care bill expected to die in Senate
Nov. 8, 2009 03:16 PM
Health care bill expected to die in Senate
by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.
Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people."
The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.
If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.
"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said dismissively.
Democrats did not line up to challenge him. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has yet to schedule floor debate and hinted last week that senators may not be able to finish health care this year.
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the only thing
these politicians find revolting about the bill is the notion of a 'public option'.
If then we're all mandated all the same to be covered by some private means or else face penalties (and huge penalties and jailtime if we avoid those tax penalties), then freedom is mutilated a bit further regardless. And i mean mutilated in a sense where freedom is already dead, now we're just hacking off dead limbs and stuff.
Aren't Lieberman and Graham owned and operated?
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
they are establishment owned aren't they, now they are on our side, or pretending to be? These type of things really get confusing.
You have to translate their comments
from "politician speak".
What they are really saying is that they want more money or concessions to their power, in order to get them to vote for it.
It's "code language".
That's how it goes...
...when you're dealing with unprincipled asses.
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