CongressDaily is reporting that the House Leadership thinks they have 218 votes for ObamaCare. Speaker Pelosi herself said she “definitely” has 218 votes.
Call the vote on ObamaCare NOW Mrs. Speaker, if you have the votes, call the vote.
But you will not call the vote, because you don’t have the votes. And you will not call the vote anytime soon.
Here is one report from one source, who is as credible and well informed as they get, who wrote this after meeting with a Dem Chief of Staff (CoS):
Rep. Bart Stupak, leader of the pro-life Dems, has at least 50 votes in opposition to the bill. The CoS [Chief of Staff] also said there are lots of pro-choice Dems who don’t believe federal funding should be used for abortion. Ratchet the number up some more.
Then there are the Blue Dogs who don’t like it. And the CoS does not think they will roll. The BDs [Blue Dogs] took a licking at home after the Cap-and-Trade vote and then again during the August recess. They do not desire to repeat that.
Then you have Dems with Dem Governors back home telling them they can’t afford what the feds are about to throw at them via Medicaid.
Then you have the Dems in districts with large senior populations who are not happy with the Medicare cutbacks being proposed.
And Pelosi thinks she can get 218 out of this? “Ha!” laughed the CoS.
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She can't her lips are stuck on her laminates
jeannieology (Diary) Thursday, October 22nd at 11:43PM EST (link)and when she goes to speak she can’t….lips are stuck…mumbles all the time.
www.jeannie-ology.com
pelosi is
bobojake (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 12:31AM EST (link)a liar like the rest of bogus bama sheeples
It's good to know she doesn't have the votes, but
The_Gadfly (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 4:08AM EST (link)I don’t think she’d call the vote even if she did. She, Reid, and The Big 0 need the Senate to vote their bill out first or the conference play falls apart. If the BDs in the Senate KNOW the House bill has a Public Option (under any name they choose to substitute) they also KNOW their experiences in townhalls this past summer will seem like gentle summer rains.
It's the botox
redpens (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 4:15AM EST (link)that keeps Pelosi’s face from moving. She doesn’t have the votes and she knows it. Hey Nancy, one more time. WE DON’T WANT A GOVERNMENT-RUN OR PUBLIC OPTION! We can’t let up on this, ever.
No votes for Public Option..
treeofliberty Friday, October 23rd at 8:56AM EST (link)Puts a lot of pressure on the hard-left Micheal Moore wing-nuts of the party as well as Olbermann/Maddow who have been campaigning non stop for a public option. They said they wouldn’t vote for ANY bill without a strong public option so that puts Obama in a tough position: he either angers his base or Middle America, seems he is trying to go with the former which may depress voter turnout and enthusiasm especially for Congressional Dems.
All in all, this is looking like a quintessential Pyrrhic “victory” (assuming something does get passed) which will cost Obama and the Left dearly in the next elections. I can’t wait!
Obama/Reid/Pelosi know full well
bk (Diary) Saturday, October 31st at 9:34AM EST (link)that the hard left will all vote for whatever any final bill is regardless of what posturing they did about it needing to have this or that in it. So there is really no pressure on them it seems to me.
If Pelosi didn’t have such a huge ego, she could have waited for the Senate to produce a somewhat less horrible bill and then asked the House to pass it without changes. Voila! No conference or other votes needed – on to the President’s desk for signature.
RedStaters, remember this
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Friday, October 23rd at 10:45AM EST (link)I, your lovable, huggable EPU, have been saying this since BEFORE THE AUGUST RECESS. By hook and crook, the Dems will find a way to buy off 1 vote in the Senate, and do whatever is necessary to keep their last 2 or 3 recalcitrant Dems on board at least for cloture.
But it WILL FAIL in the House. It ALWAYS was going to fail in the House. Pelosi, Hoyer, Murtha, and gang have never had control of their herd of cats, and all those blue dogs are fully aware that voting for this is the end of their career of having their snouts at the public trough.
And now, just like spring follows summer in Texas (think about that), I am right. Again.
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It's contribution time, not vote time
drfredc Saturday, October 24th at 1:23AM EST (link)Whether or not Pelosi has the votes to pass Obamacare out of the House isn’t as important to the Obamacrats as it is to extend and vacillate the debate from one side to another to pick up as much campaign money as possible.
Forget term limits, For real campaign finance reform, politicians should not be allowed to run for office while holding office. They ought to take a couple years off between offices — return to the real world to get regrounded on realities. If this weren’t about tweaking political issues to raise money for the next election, these sorts of complex problems would have been solved a long time ago.
Always, Fred C
Stop obamacare by educating the young
njre Saturday, October 31st at 9:26AM EST (link)We need to keep bombarding the Blue-dog Dems and the Pro-life Dems: tell them to stay the course: NO TAXPAYERS SUPPORTED ABORTION! NO FURTHER DEFICITS FROM OBAMACARE!
Obamacare must be stopped!
Dick Morris says the best way to now stop ObamaCare is to educate those under 30. This 3-D, anti-Obamacare ad is a great way to do it on their own turf: YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpQlTN9kgfo
THIS is how conservatives need to start diversifying their messages to the youth audience so conservative messages all aren’t just scenes of tea parties and paintings of patriotic scenes. Please make this go viral, everyone. Please hurry! We can make an impact!
njre check this out
h ttp://www.scribd.com/doc/20917727/WHOARETHEBIRTHERS4-0
h ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpQlTN9kgfo