Harry Reid is going to attempt to get the Senate Democrats to vote for cloture before they are any of their constituents have had time read and understand the bill. Senators Lincoln, Bayh, Landrieu, Lieberman, McCaskill, Nelson, Pryor and Webb all committed in October to a transparent process on health care reform, which would include [...]
The president has spoken: get a deal done before Christmas, whatever the cost — whatever deals must be struck or compromises made. There are reports from multiple Senate sources that Rahm Emanuel told Senate Democrats that the President wants a health care bill passed, and that passage is the only thing that is non-negotiable. That [...]
Yesterday, we covered Keith Olbermann’s nonsensical Monday night rant, where he lashed out at Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others. Not only did he go on about how there is no liberal media bias, but he also went on to say “comparing them to disease gives disease a bad name.” Another night and [...]
Senator Ben Nelson has said that he will not vote for a health care bill unless it included an amendment forbidding the use of federal funds for abortion. Now that Joe Lieberman’s vote is in the bag with the expansion of Medicare being removed from the bill last night, it appears the Senate is prepared [...]
It would appear that the reports that Obama told Reid to pull Medicare expansion out of the health care bill in order to get Lieberaman on board are true. TPM is reporting that Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) has said that the Medicare option is going to be pulled: Asked by a reporter if the Medicare [...]
In an effort to ‘close the deal’, President Obama first ordered Harry Reid to drop the public option/Medicare provision so that they could get Joe Lieberman’s vote, and now he is calling them to the White House to rally support. Over the weekend, the President gave a pep talk to the Senate Democratic caucus on [...]
Is Harry Reid being ordered to do whatever it takes to get Lieberman on board? Politico is reporting that the White House is ordering Reid to cut a deal with Liberman, which could include removing the Medicare expansion from the bill: The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a [...]
While Harry Reid has been touting replacing the public option with an expansion of Medicare (lowering the eligible age to 55), many see it as yet another attempt to take a step towards a single payer system. Far from a true compromise. Joe Lieberman’s comments on the proposed ‘compromise’: “Though I don’t know exactly what’s [...]