The wheels may be coming off the cart of the Democrats’ all-in-this together strategy for overhauling healthcare.
And according to two reports, the people doing the wheel removing work at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Last week, conservative Democratic senators broke the news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was considering including a provision in the Senate healthcare bill which would create a government-run healthcare option but allow states to opt out.
On Friday, Politico claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was coming up short when corralling votes for the “robust” public option she’d promised. Critics dismissed the report, but the New York Times subsequently reported that there were indications Pelosi was short of the needed votes to pass a more aggressive public plan.
And on Saturday night, just in time for the Sunday talk shows, The Huffington Post reported what numerous Democrats already feared: that President Barack Obama was privately cold to the Senate’s opt-out public option, fearing that his party doesn’t have the votes to pass it. Obama, the story says, favors a proposal floated by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), which would put a public option in place only if insurance companies failed to meet a certain threshold of cost control.
An archeological team, digging in Washington DC , has uncovered 10,000 year old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be the first politician.
Yes. I have the official proclamation right here. Somewhere. It was here a minute ago. Oh well.
1. whats a rss feed?
2. I want to go back read buhdy’s sci-fi series Iglesias, but its backwards. I…silly me… prefer to start at the beginning. And Im lazy as shit. But not today anyway so no hurry. (Im up to my bellybutton in my daughter’s book! Onto book #2 actually. Theyre good.)
3. I had some other ?’s yesterday, Ill try to remember what they were.
thank you in advance.
P.S. Has anyone seen my keys!??!!?! meh. A Sunday ritual around here.
so I will have something decent to eat at work tonight.
Hopefully I will have a decent shift and actually have time to eat it. Two things that nurses cherish being able to eat and being able to pee. Life is basic.
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likes President Olympia Snowe’s trigger, unfortunately…
An archeological team, digging in Washington DC , has uncovered 10,000 year old bones and fossil remains of what is believed to be the first politician.
An open thread, just what this needed.
phew.
Yes. I have the official proclamation right here. Somewhere. It was here a minute ago. Oh well.
1. whats a rss feed?
2. I want to go back read buhdy’s sci-fi series Iglesias, but its backwards. I…silly me… prefer to start at the beginning. And Im lazy as shit. But not today anyway so no hurry. (Im up to my bellybutton in my daughter’s book! Onto book #2 actually. Theyre good.)
3. I had some other ?’s yesterday, Ill try to remember what they were.
thank you in advance.
P.S. Has anyone seen my keys!??!!?! meh. A Sunday ritual around here.
so I will have something decent to eat at work tonight.
Hopefully I will have a decent shift and actually have time to eat it. Two things that nurses cherish being able to eat and being able to pee. Life is basic.
…..really only…
…Venus in Furs!