President Obama, being the free-trader that he is, promises to get the free-trade agreements with Columbia and Panama approved. Wow! What has been taking so long? Nancy Pelosi?
Now the president also wants to pursue nuclear power and off-shore drilling for oil. What has been the hold-up on this? Nancy Pelosi?
Let's see who wins these arguments. And let's find out if the president really has his heart in these things, or is just appearing to shift to the Republican positions. President Obama had no interest at all in any of these things as a candidate.
Showing posts with label PELOSI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PELOSI. Show all posts
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
HURRY UP AND WAIT
All of a sudden, Nancy Pelosi and Chris Dodd want to slow down on a health care bill. After all the urgency, now they want to "take a breather", maybe for a month or six weeks. Wasn't this what the congressional Republicans were advocating all along? Funny how the senatorial loss in Massachusetts has made Democrats more cautious.
Monday, December 21, 2009
HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT NO ONE WANTS
No one wants the Health Care Reform legislation that is pending a vote in the U.S. Senate. Not a single Republican will vote for it. The extreme left wing of the Democratic Party is very opposed to the senate bill. Howard Dean, Arianna Huffington, and Markos Moulitsas all want the bill to die because, among other things, there is no provision for a public option. But thanks to pay-offs to Senators Landrieu and Nelson, and concessions to Lieberman, the bill will pass with 60 votes in a early morning session on Christmas Eve.
Then what?
The bills passed by the House and Senate will go to a conference committee for "reconciliation". The problem is, the bills are very much different in areas like the public option. Democratic senators, with their 60-vote majority still tenuous, are unlikely to accept a bill which is different than the one they passed. So, Nancy Pelosi has a decision to make. Does she accept the senate bill as written and betray her hard left constituency, or does she thumb her nose at President Obama and sink the whole thing?
Great political drama.
Then what?
The bills passed by the House and Senate will go to a conference committee for "reconciliation". The problem is, the bills are very much different in areas like the public option. Democratic senators, with their 60-vote majority still tenuous, are unlikely to accept a bill which is different than the one they passed. So, Nancy Pelosi has a decision to make. Does she accept the senate bill as written and betray her hard left constituency, or does she thumb her nose at President Obama and sink the whole thing?
Great political drama.
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