most of them can be bought off. In addition to the perks that Pelosi can offer, the White House can make billions of dollars suddenly appear for district projects.

One House progressive tells me he’s convinced that most of the undecideds, and a number of the No votes, can be won over with the right mix of pressure and incentives — which only the House leadership and the White House can provide.”

That’s right, it’s me. I’ve been calling this one for months.

Will not pass the House in any form. The Town Halls did it.

277 -56 = 221. That is still enough for it to pass (assuming a simple majority vote, and assuming that some of these 56 don’t change their minds). I wouldn’t start dancing on the grave of Obamacare yet. We still have our work cut out for us.

Dan, you’ve been closely following the health care debate in Congress. You might like this video shown to Senate Republicans, yesterday, during their weekly lunch. These videos are rarely seen outside the lunch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmNdV0PSRy4

It shows the contrasts between Candidate Obama and President Obama when it comes to transparency.

Let me know what you think.

Another word for Socialist A-holes!

Won’t the Republicans bring up as an amendment to any bill the $247B slight of hand measure that Reid got stuffed on? Would Reid be able to prevent its being offered? If it came up for a vote, I suspect it would pass with virtually all the members who killed cloture voting for it. And how could the lefty Democrats vote against it? “We want to say we’re saving $500B in Medicare/aid waste/fraud abuse and then separately reauthorize half of that waste/fraud/abuse.” Uh, right.

If that gets added to whatever bill Reid concocts, that immediately adds $247B to the CBO cost and definitely kills Snowe’s support I’d think. Would this be the final straw that kills ANY bill from passing? Could Lincoln or Landrieu or even Bayh or Nelson support say a $1.2T bill that adds at least a quarter billion to the deficit?

And on a slightly different topic, why does it seem that no one except Krauthammer brings up the fact that the CBO figure – even if their calculations are perfect – is bogus because it looks at 10 years of collecting money vs only 6 years or so of spending it? (I guess we’ll have a ‘health care lockbox’ now. Let’s hope it has a better ‘key’ than the social security lockbox.) It seems the GOP should be all over this as another sleight of hand.

or deficits. All they want to do is destroy our economy even further than it has already been. With more and more millions of citizens dependent on the central gov’t for their very lives, they will obtain more and more power. Washington D.C. has been taken over by a sickness that only having most of them defeated in their next re-election bid can cure. There is no vaccine or message which will reach them, other than major electoral defeats. This includes R’s as well as D’s. In spite of the townhall meetings and tea parties, they still believe “they know best.” They don’t. They answer only to the special interests and lobbyists who are supporting them or wooing them with gifts, trips, perks of all sorts. Get them out of there! Send them home! And, the sooner, the better! Potomac Fever runs deep and wide in that cesspool we call our Capitol.

Would people stop calling these fascist social welfare collectivists – progressives. They are regressives in every sense of the word. They want to institute the thoughts and tenets that Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Ayers, Alinsky, Chomsky et al embrace.