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    • EPIC FAIL: Pelosi Can’t Pass Senate Health Bill

    John on January 21, 2010 at 9:13 am

    So says Pelosi herself via the Washington Post:

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the Senate will have to amend its version of a health-care reform bill before her chamber can pass it.

    “I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” Pelosi told reporters after a morning meeting with her caucus. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time.”

    Of course the obvious question here is how the Senate can possibly get a revised version through with only 59 Democrats. And that’s assuming that all of the moderate Dems would vote for this a second time around. Given what just happened in Massachusetts, how eager are the moderates to go out on a limb? Maybe not too eager:

    Moderate members of Reid’s caucus also urged restraint, interpreting the Massachusetts outcome as a clear signal against advancing such a huge bill along party lines.

    Matter of fact, given his dismal polling numbers, how eager can Harry “Sisyphus” Reid be to push this boulder back up the hill?

    Reid, meanwhile, struck a more cautious note. “We’re not going to rush into anything,” he told reporters after a Senate Democratic lunch. “Remember, the bill we passed in the Senate is good for a year. There are many different things that we can do to move forward on health care, but we’re not making any of those decisions now.”

    Health care, at least the exclusively Democratic vision of it, is dead. After a full year of effort to not get anything at all…

    The reformer and his trusty steed face defeat.

    [HT: Hot Air headlines]

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    6 Comments

    1. Georg Felis

      You missed the point. If the House were to take up the Senate bill WITHOUT PERMITTING AMMENDMENTS and pass it unchanged, it would then be signed by President Obama and become law, without having to go back to the Senate for another vote. (A varient of the Ping-Pong maneuver) What Pelosi is saying in essence is without the ability to buy off House members with Nebraska sized bribes written into House Democratic ammendments, she cannot get enough votes to pass this turkey.

      Perhaps she is just a bit nervous about becoming the Minority Leader of the House next year. Or even an Ex-House Member. We can only Hope for that Change.

      January 21, 2010 @ 10:30 am
    2. John

      Georg,

      Well, she can’t pass it as is, that’s clear. Whether it’s because she can’t work in the proper payoffs or because certain features (abortion lang.) are too unpopular regardless of what she might offer members is open to debate.

      No way forward in the House. No way back in the Senate. I think it’s toast.

      January 21, 2010 @ 2:45 pm
    3. Mark @ Israel

      “I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” — she is right! What they should do is to make some modification to the house bill and make it more palatable and acceptable to people who are directly affected by the bill if it shall be made a law.

      January 22, 2010 @ 6:58 am
    4. Jim

      I think Pelosi needs to get another face lift and call it a day.

      January 22, 2010 @ 6:51 pm
    5. LiberalsFail

      @ Jim,
      If I had a face as ugly as hers, I would wrap it up and call it a sore.

      January 22, 2010 @ 11:49 pm
    6. Jim

      She’s definitely a two-bagger. When you go out with her you put a bag over her head and a bag over yours in case her bag breaks.
      She’s a socialist living in the wrong country. I’ve spent considerable time in Northern California. Those people are lost in the weeds. Jerry “if it’s Brown, flush it it” as attorney general? I’m in favor of cutting California into two states. Let the North have Los Angeles County as well and I’ll take everything south from there.
      By the way, her socialist president sent the stock market reeling with his asinine comments about the financial sector of our economy. Nothing like having Obamanure declaring war on our financial institutions. What a rank amamteur. Where did we fish up this bozo? And people were concerned about Bushes deficits? Will he moderate his views in light of Brown’s victory over Croackley? I doubt it. Any man sitting under Reverend Wrong for twenty years and having no objection to what was being preached is an entrenched idealogue. Pelosi’s the same way. The two of them and Harry “soon to be a blackjack dealer” Reid complete Washington’s answer to the three stooges.

      January 23, 2010 @ 10:40 am

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