House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spent half of Wednesday finalizing a deal with the Blue Dogs — and the other half quelling a brewing rebellion among progressives who think conservatives have hijacked health care reform.Pop some popcorn and pull up a chair. This should be very entertaining.
Liberals, Hispanics and African-American members — Pelosi’s most loyal base of support — are feeling betrayed after House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) reached an agreement with four of seven Blue Dogs on his committee who had been bottling up the bill over concerns about cost.
The compromise, which still must be reconciled with competing House and Senate versions, would significantly weaken the public option favored by liberals by delinking reimbursement rates to Medicare.
“Waxman made a deal that is unacceptable,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), one of about 10 progressives who met repeatedly with Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Wednesday.
“We signed a pledge to reject any plan that doesn’t include a robust public option, and this plan doesn’t have a robust public option,” he added.
By sundown Wednesday, the outcry from the left had become so loud that Waxman was forced to scrap a scheduled markup of the compromise measure. He rescheduled the meeting for Thursday morning and convened a mass question-and-answer session for a deeply divided Democratic Caucus — a meeting that is expected to be extremely contentious.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The Liberals Are Revolting!
Well, you already knew that, but I mean revolting in the protest sense, not the general appearance sense:
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I'm sick and tired of Congress and the Senate continually passing bills that they don't even read. Isn't that what we as tax payer's pay them to do that is their job. Yet they continually pass things that are not even clear. So they don't get a month long vacation most of the American people haven't had vacations in years. NOT even one week. I'm sick and tired of these politicians who continually are caving in to pressure from inside the White House. If the President won't do his job our representatives must do their job!
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