Assuming that there’s any sort of on-message at this point. Via Hot Air, here’s the latest cloud of ink from a Democrat perhaps worried about the way things are going:
Hoyer (D-Md.) emphasized his support for a public option in a teleconference call with reporters, but also said he wants to ensure Congress sends a bill to the president.
“I’m for a public option, but I’m also for passing a bill,” he said. Democrats believe the public option is necessary, useful and important, he added, “be we’ll have to see.”
No doubt we’ll soon enough get a clarification of the explanation of the correction of the restatement of whatever the heck it is that the Democrats want to do this week. Although what are progressives going to do with Steny, anyway? Give money to Charles Lollar?
Well, they should. But that’s just the Marylander Republican talking.
Moe Lane
PS: In other words, it is not yet time for me to publicly join in the Crowder Victory Dance. And I am sure that the world finds this delay much to its liking.
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I think its worse to be for "a bill" than to be for a public option
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 2:50PM EST (link)and just hope Graham and Grassley don’t have the same disease that equates solving a problem with passing any bill, ie who thinks doing nothing is worse than passing anything.
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“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
100% in agreement.
Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 8:54PM EST (link)Something is worse than nothing in this case.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
thx 'staff - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, August 22nd at 9:53AM EST (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
It's the number one Republican disease:
Achance (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 3:06PM EST (link)that got to get a deal, got to find some way to pass “a bill” or get “an agreement.” Most of the time the only guidance on collective bargaining goals I’d get from Republican officeholders was “we need to get an agreement.” Didn’t much matter what was in it except that they usually didn’t want it to look like it cost anything. “We need an agreement” was second only to “Don’t get any grievances filed,” well I know how to do that; just giving them whatever they want keeps the grievances down – for awhile until it becomes graphically evident that you can never give them enough.
In Vino Veritas
Paid by the Bill?
bvinsf (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 3:47PM EST (link)So does Congress get paid by the number of bills they now? Do they get a bonus if it stomps on at least three Constitutional rights? Do they get a free trip to Hawaii if the bill is over 1,000 pages long?
A rosary a day keeps the Devil away!
You can send a bill HOYER
bobojake (Diary) Friday, August 21st at 9:49PM EST (link)As long as as its marked obamacare- DOA
obamacare belongs in the basement of an outhouse on the 4th of July in 100 degree heat. Let reid and pelosi fish it out with scuba gear.