Stupak: There’s No Deal, And I Won’t Agree to a Promise to Fix the Bill in the Future
Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak said yesterday at a townhall in his home state, "I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago" that a deal could be reached to pass a health care bill that bans public funding of abortion. Some speculated that this meant Stupak was ready to cave. "Obviously they don’t know me," [...]
Deadline, what deadline?
Politico reports that Steny Hoyer has “rebuffed” the White House on its March 18 deadline for a vote in the House on the Senate’s health care bill. “None of us has mentioned the 18th, other than Mr. Gibbs,” Hoyer said.
Hoyer explained that the disagreement about the aborion issue within the Democratic caucus “has [...]
Three pillars of Obamaism
Barack Obama signed three executive orders on January 22, 2009. One provided for closure of Guantanamo and the the review of the cases of the detainees held there. One provided for the termination of the CIA program of enhanced interrogation. One provided for the review of detention policy options. Following on [...]
Hoyer: W.H. Rethinking Plans for Detainees
News from Steny Hoyer, via Politico:
The second-ranking House Democrat signaled Tuesday that the White House is reconsidering a plan to move Guantanamo detainees to a prison in northwest Illinois.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said he agrees that the Obama administration should reassess the plan to move terrorist suspects from the Cuba military base to [...]
Steny Hoyer just doesn’t get it - says Voters upset about ‘GOP obstructionism, not Dem agenda’
Is House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer stone deaf to reality, or what!
After all, how could Hoyer actually hold the absurd belief that the “angst voters have expressed early this election year is the result of GOP obstructionism, not the Democrats agenda,” especially since Scott Brown has run against Barack Obama’s big government, big spending, agenda [...]
Squirmer of the House Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Have the Votes… Yet
I picture Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 100%) writhing and twisting in frustration; with all those Democrats, surely she can scrape together 218 to vote for SqueakerCare!
Surely not, at least not yet:
House Democrats acknowledged they don’t yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health care system, and signaled [...]
