paraphrased live...
He says 'starting over' as repubs want, will leave us in the same place a year from now.
Reform has already passed house and senate - and now it deservers the same up/down vote used on SChip, COBRA, welfare reform, and the Bush tax cuts - all of which had to pass congress with only a simple majority.
He's giving congress a few weeks to nail down the wording on the bill.
Then, everyone in the hosue and senate will have to say YEA or NEA.
I'll leave it to others to sift thru the politics - this is about what reform means for the sick person, etc.
I urge every american who wants this reform to make their voice heard as well.
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Where are thse folks that declared it dead 6 months ago? He's using reconciliation, and he's going to force everyone in congress to say NO to the next step in the social security/medicare ladder - I don't think many will have the guts to oppose it in an up/down vote.
240- You need to back up a bit and rethink Who Obama truly is to understand where this man is with pushing the healthcare bill as hard as he has. Even after with the voices of America have told him no, voted in a republican into one of the more liberal seats in MASS.
Obama was the least vetted presidential hopefuls America has ever seen. And once things started to surface by means of his affiliations, they were marginalized to only circumstance. For the last 14 months we have learned Obama is no centrist. He talks the centrist game well, but he is no centrist. His actions say he is very liberal. in fact, he is the most liberal president we have ever seen. His apology tour around the world, his most liberal appointees, feeling sorry for America's ills, his stand-offs with Isreal, his talkover of banks, limiting pay, cap and tax to a point businesses are handcuffed... He truly believes he is taking from the rich what truly belongs to the poor. Obama hatest this country and how it was founded. His education came from left wing raticals throughout his life. He was abandoned by his father, and he feels he ate the crap-sandwich fed to him by white corporate America.
Now, go back and see why this helathcare bill is soo important to him, and not a jobs summit, or tackling the war on terror and you will see who Obama truly is. And why working Americans are deathly afraid of this man, and his cabinet.