Obamacare’s Passage Rests on Pelosi’s Powers of Persuasion
When legislative leaders count votes before a bill comes to the floor they call it a “whip check.” It’s an old English phrase referring to those who kept the dogs in line during a foxhunt.
With all the barking about health care these days, Speaker Pelosi will need some pretty stout lashes to hold Democrats in [...]
No More Health Care in America!
Actually, it’s just no more ObamaCare, according to the New York Times; I’m just going along with the media crowd that continually uses the term “health care” as a synonym for “mandatory, government-controlled, grotesquely expensive health insurance that leads inevitably to health-care rationing.”
Here’s the Times:
With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic [...]
As the Byrd Rule Flies: Why Dems Can’t Use Reconciliation to Pass Radical ObamaCare
…Unless they’re willing to immolate themselves in the process — and probably lose the fight anyway.
Everybody is now slinging around the term “reconciliation process,” but I think most of us don’t really understand what the heck that means — other than a sneaky way to pass ObamaCare without having to break a Republican filibuster. [...]
