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The Spectacle Blog
Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a press conference today said that there weren't enough votes in the House to pass the Senate health care bill, dealing another blow to the prospects that Democrats can pass comprehensive legislation.
TPM reports:
"I don't see the votes for it at this time," Pelosi said. "The members have been very clear in our caucus about the fact that they didn't like it before it had the Nebraska provision and some of the other provisions that are unpalatable to them."
"In every meeting that we have had, there would be nothing to give me any thought that that bill could pass right now the way that it is," she said. "There isn't a market right now for proceeding with the full bill unless some big changes are made."
She also said, "We're not in a big rush. Pause. Reflect upon what the possibilities are. We always have to go where we can build consensus."
While she said, "We have to get a bill passed -- we know that. That's a predicate that we all subscribe to," she didn't outline a path to passage.
Josh Marshall's interpretation: "In other words, plug pulled. Health care reform over."
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Pingback| 1.21.10 @ 12:13PM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Pelosi: Not Enough Vote links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Ken (Old Texican)| 1.21.10 @ 12:38PM
Mr. Klein,
please keep in mind that her words today are no more sane than her words on any other day of her career.
The woman is a wealthy whack job. Always has been...at least since her marriage???
Thanks for the chuckle though.
Johnny B Good| 1.21.10 @ 12:42PM
That exocet was way too close. Thank God for the Scud missile called Brown. Nevertheless, too soon to take off the hard hats.... Obama believes in extending worldwide & making it easier to 'terminate' unborn innocents and get other people to finance the killing..... if you can do that you've probably got more nasty surprises in your tool box.
c. j. acworth| 1.21.10 @ 5:52PM
"Thank God for the Scud missle called Brown." The Scud is a surface-to-surface missle, not an intercepter. I think the missle you want is the Patriot, which is even more appropos, don't you think?
JP| 1.21.10 @ 12:44PM
So the Left blogesphere will go ballistic. But, it looks like Pelosi and Reid will take the heat and not the President. I can just see the talking points: Pelosi hadn't the guts to ram the thing through; Pelosi lets her President and her party down....
Of course, the small GOP minority will also be blamed. By the end of Feb, the Left will concoct a narrative that paints the GOP minority as powerfull obstructionists who expertly manipulated the Dems. And who knows, they may even blame everything on Karl Rove and Dick Cheney.
Siegfried X| 1.21.10 @ 1:24PM
The Democrats still haven't given up. They are talking about the Senate passing a "corrections" bill by budget reconciliation (only 51 votes needed - no filibusters), and then the House passes both of them.
In other words Pelosi might be able to get 218 votes for the two bills combined. Until the Democrats give up on that hope, Obama Care isn't dead.
Siegfried X| 1.21.10 @ 4:03PM
Pelosi also said, "We're not in a big rush..."
Those are the key words. They gave up.
Health care is on the back burner now. All the momentum they had, and a bill they thought was a few weeks from signing, is gone.
Patriot| 1.21.10 @ 5:10PM
Dick Morris said the dems have the votes in the House to pass ObamaCare; arm-twisting is going to take a while.
Some are just going to have to walk the plank--watch and see.
Siegfried X| 1.21.10 @ 6:42PM
Morris is full of it, as usual. Once negotiations open up again then the Dems don't have any votes at all -- no one signs on until they see the new deal.
It's ridiculous for Morris to think he can count votes better than Pelosi or the Democratic representative who said there are less than 100 votes in favor of the Senate bill.
Pelosi has been twisting arms for days and today she admitted that she can't get there by arm twisting. She's not going to try either -- she wants the Senate to compromise, not for her house to just cave in.
Patriot| 1.21.10 @ 7:17PM
What's ridiculous is that you think you know better than an insider like Morris--how much are you paid for your on-air opinions? Nothing? I thought so and that's exactly what your posts are worth, nimrod.