Pelosi Walks Tightrope Between House Anti-Choicers and Deficit Hawks on Healthcare Bill
Will women's rights will get thrown under the bus -- again -- along with poor people? I sure hope Nancy Pelosi refuses to go along with this blackmail, but I'm not hopeful:
WASHINGTON — The future of President Obama’s health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats in the House of Representatives — abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives — whose indecision signals the difficulties Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces in securing the votes necessary to pass the bill.
With Republicans unified in their opposition, Democrats are drafting plans to try on their own to pass a bill based on one Mr. Obama unveiled before his bipartisan health forum last week. His measure hews closely to the one passed by the Senate in December, but differs markedly from the one passed by the House.
That leaves Ms. Pelosi in the tough spot of trying to keep wavering members of her caucus on board, while persuading some who voted no to switch their votes to yes — all at a time when Democrats are worried about their prospects for re-election.


Mandating that everyone buy health insurance is just wrong.
Yes, healthcare is expensive, that is a problem. But it didn't get expensive because not enough people were using it.
I'm not gonna join the "loop" rep. Pelosi.
you can take your healthcare "loop" and (shove it)
(demonstrate first) "how well this healthcare loop" is gonna work with volunteers.
if gov't can demonstrate what a good thing it is...(good luck w/dat!)
(then people will come running)
I suggest a special 1040 EZ form with a section you can fill out if you want "optional govt healthcare" ...if the cost and coverage are right, it will sell itself.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
No wonder Democrats loose all the time. The simple fact the our Speaker of the House cannot speak would be a major red light.
You see how well she reads when she was reading the questions, but why couldn't she have had a teleprompter to provide her with answers so Peolsi could sound like she knows what she is talking about!
She is a joke.
Even us liberals think she is a joke.
are quite happy to let 10's of thousands die from lack of medical care accessibility. How very christian of them.
Just push it through Nancy. Just do it.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Stop pretending it's like sex and you just lay there.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Not so sure the words "Healthcare Reform" should be in there, either... More like "Mandated Insurance Corporations Profits Reform".
Please Lord...don't make me picture queen nancy in plumy spangly leotards.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE my country. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. But the meme that we ARE the best country that ever existed is BS. The greatest country that ever existed has been nearly destroyed by religious fanatics who want nothing more than to MURDER millions of people in the name of RELIGION. OUR "vaulted leaders" want to murder MILLIONS, not because they present any kind of viable THREAT to US but to make the rest of the WORLD OBEY THEM. They want OWNERSHIP of the world's resources for their "BOTTOM LINES", FORCED IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE, by threat, attack, bombs, forced changes in the beliefs of the world's population. Anything it takes goes. NOTHING is out of the question. NOTHING is bad enough for any of our "vaulted leaders" to say "STOP".
The "Greatest Country On Earth" lets 45 MILLION Americans DIE each year for lack of health care because the BOMBS are more worthy of the money. The Lockheed Martins, the Boeings, the Wall Street thieves, the insurance company murderers bottom lines, their next election, on and on TRUMP the American People.
The "Greatest Country that ever existed condones kidnapping, beating, Lying, TORTURE, MURDER, covering up the worst war crimes in HISTORY, allows the criminal a get out of jail free card because it's more CONVENIENT to let the criminals go free IF they have a lot of CONNECTIONS, except the few MILLIONAIRES who happened to get on the wrong SIDE of the wrong people or if one of those high ups might get MAD at them.
Too many of the residents of the "Greatest Country that ever existed" are out there laughing and mocking anyone they consider LESS than they. They're out there making fun of disabled and sick people even to the point of telling a wheelchair bound woman "Wawawa. DIE!"
"The Greatest Country that ever existed" has decimated our great education system that is now but a shadow of what it was in the 60s and before. 90 percent of the "journalists" and politicians can't even write or speak a sentence that is grammatically correct or tell you ONE THING that the Constitution REALLY says. Politicians on the right want to REWRITE the text books to reflect their LIES and self interested blasphemy.
"The Greatest Country that ever existed uses an earthquake as an excuse to FORCE one of the poorest countries on Earth to comply with IT'S political need to rule and leaves a 1000 bed HOSPITAL SHIP EMPTY in the HARBOR refusing to treat the wounded for DAYS because they are waiting for "ORDERS" to treat, which won't COME until the government of that ravaged island agrees to comply with DEMANDS.
We have BEEN the greatest country, the most respected, but we have ALSO been the worst and right NOW we have NO LAW that the RICH cannot break. NO LAW that applies to the pretenders to religion that have been in charge for most of the last 3 decades and another side currently in charge who have no WILL to obey the law OR the Constitution by holding ANYONE ACCOUNTABLE and who aid and abet those who would continue to destroy education and dumb down the population to the point that NO ONE will, for much longer, be smart enough to even QUESTION the lies of the destroyers.
Our children are learning ONLY that if you tell the LIE often enough the more people will believe it, the more likely it becomes the belief of the masses rather than call the lie the lie it is and confront the liars.
We are a country of SHEEP, willing and begging to believe the lies of the wholly owned, bought and paid for corporate interests who can no longer produce more than a few oranges. Why? Because we have been SOLD OUT by the greedy politicians who have been bought and paid for by the corporate interests and their own self interest.
"The Greatest Country that ever existed" has destroyed our manufacturing BASE, assisted the corporations in leaving US without jobs and then blamed US for the lack of jobs by saying WE MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY in spite of the fact that most of us NEVER made more than 5 or 10 percent of what they pay themselves ON OUR DIME. The ONLY THING WE HAVE LEFT is war, rendition and torture and the perps on television every single DAY BRAGGING about their CRIMES and their PRIDE in perpetrating them and a justice department that no longer has any semblance of justice.
"The greatest country that ever existed would OBEY the Constitution, it's leaders would HOLD CRIMINALS ACCOUNTABLE no matter who they are or how much MONEY they have OR how much of that MONEY would assist the politicians to get re-elected year after year after decade to continue working AGAINST the best interest of the population for PROFIT. And we can't EVER get back there until the politicians RECOGNIZE that "We The People" are diverse and do NOT all subscribe to their personal beliefs and OUR Constitution demands we ALL have the RIGHT to make that CHOICE for OURSELVES and not have someone else's "beliefs or pretense of" forced on US.
When Nancy Pelosi took IMPEACHMENT off the table in direct opposition to what the Constitution demanded and BROKE her OATH to uphold it, we became a lawless nation where CRIME PAYS. And unless we can get back to the point where the LAW and the Constitution matter we can never again BE the "Greatest Country That Ever Existed".
but we are NOT the best. We are NOT #1. And those who think so are either rich, corrupt and/or doesn't watch the news.
Excellent post, weslen1.
NOBODY 2012
I DO believe we have BEEN the best and could be again but we don't have leaders with the will to make us the best again. They just believe that RICH means GOOD and it doesn't. Hope they learn that before it's too late for our children and grandchildren.
Vote The Bums Out!
so concisely weslen1.
I believe that more Americans who have been paying attention to the news and less to American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, agree with everything you just said. They just don't have the guts to say it.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Bought and paid for. Loyal employees to the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Way to go, Hope and Change!
NOBODY 2012
Let's see past performance, hmmmmm? What do you really expect from any of these people? It is a sad day when the most we can hope for is that the conservative come to our aid and prevent the bill from passing.
They spend trillions on the WAR DEPARTMENT, let's call it what it is. But they don't want to do a damn thing for the people. We are to be their slaves. No confusion here.
It isn't that we have a "right" to medical coverage anymore than we have a "right" to fire departments, police, or any other infrastructure. Framing the issue as a matter of "rights" is just enabling the opposition, and defying common sense.
The reality is that health care is as an issue of government infrastructure. A city could not function without a hospital anymore than without a fire department or police department, waterworks, etc.
No bill. Let it die. This is a republican piece of sh@t bill anyway. Medicare for all now!
Republicans are liars and simply cannot be trusted.
Amen
She sold us out long ago. Pelosi is a JOKE.
No, I am a liberal.
be a broad reaching, single pool and not a plan subdivided into hundreds of littler pools?
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