Wednesday, July 22, 2009

More's The Pity....


Hmmmm.... Looks like the pressure is getting to someone....

At 5:54 pm ET the news came: "The Energy and Commerce Markup of H.R. 3200 – America’s Affordable Health Choices Act for 7-22-09 has been CANCELLED.

Not a good sign for the Democrats trying to report the bill out from committee onto the floor for a vote. Seven conservative blue dog Democrats on the committee have said they can't vote for the bill in its current form. Some of those Blue Dogs came to the White House today for a 2 1/2 meeting, an hour of which was with President Obama.

In the last nine days the president has spoken publicly about health care reform nine times. Tomorrow night, in a prime time press conference, will make it 10 times in 10 days. But despite this push it seemed less likely today that Democrats would be able to come together to agree on an actual bill.

The White House expressed irritation at Republican obstructionism and "playing politics," but Republicans countered that it's unfair to blame them -- pointing to the substantial majorities Democrats have in the House and Senate.

"If the bill fails," said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, "it will be because of disagreement among the Democrats."

White House officials have backed off the August deadline, and now say the deadline was a way to poke and prod Congress to act.

The people are laughing in the face of politicians who show up anywhere to talk about this, the servers and phone lines are shutting down and even the United States Chamber of Commerce came out against it and is planning to run a multi-million dollar ad campaign against this plan.

And now with the CBO has saying it will add to the deficit (refuting President Fuckstick's absurd claims that it won't destroy our country), this bill is hopefully on it's way to destruction....

Read the rest here

CHOP

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