Gibbs: The Cornhusker Kickback Bill Will be "Law of the Land" in 7 Days
The Hill reports:
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the healthcare bill will pass by next weekend.
"We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday."
Gibbs added that those on next week's Sunday talk shows "will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential [...]
Pelosi: We Won’t Fix Abortion, Immigration Provisions in Senate Bill
The Hill reports:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that abortion and immigration are not central to the Democrats' healthcare reform overhaul, even though the issues have served as sticking points for some in her caucus.
Pelosi said that the primary purpose of the bill was to expand healthcare coverage, but some anti-abortion rights lawmakers have said [...]
Dems’ 2010 Strategy: GOP Will "Repeal" Obamacare
TPM reports:
With Democratic senators united on the health care bill today, their campaign arm has settled on an attack plan for 2010: Republicans would “repeal” it if they win control.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, aggressively challenging incumbent GOP senators and vying for open seats, will paint the Republicans as only interested in obstructing.
So, the Democrats’ [...]
Reid: "Real People" Support Passing My Monstrosity of a Health Care Bill Before We Know What’s In It
Remember when the left went hysterical, er, became more hysterical than usual, when Sarah Palin used the phrase “real America”?
Harry Reid’s office just sent out his remarks with the subject line:
REID: REAL PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY FOR HEALTH REFORM
So, according to Harry Reid, only 36 percent of Americans count as “real people”?
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Repealing Obamacare
C.K. MacLeod writes at Hot Air:
Dismantling, impeding, nullifying, and, in the end, fully repealing this bill does not require 60 Republicans or 60 conservatives: Greater legal, legislative, and historical minds than mine must already be studying the precedents and gaming the scenarios, but we can observe here that, if passing popular legislation in the [...]
How is Obamacare to be stopped? part 3
Over the weekend Redstate’s Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in “How is Obamacare to be stopped?” Today Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made [...]
