Is it dead? Well, it certainly isn’t healthy:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she does not have the votes needed to pass the Senate version of the health care bill.
“I don’t see the votes for it at this time,” Pelosi told reporters in a briefing.
If you’re wondering why Speaker Pelosi, who currently has something like a seventy vote majority in the House, is incapable of shepherding through a bill deemed critical to her caucus – well, one could go into great detail in describing why, but really: “not very good at her job” will do just fine.
Via Hot Air.
Moe Lane
PS: Why, yes. I am laughing at this admission of hers. One of the perks of victory, even if this is just a tactical one.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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KnightsofMalta
Good times
Wes_W Thursday, January 21st at 12:24PM EST (link)This has been a great week, and we still have Friday to look forward to.
Good times
Wes_W Thursday, January 21st at 12:24PM EST (link)This has been a great week, and we still have Friday to look forward to.
Double comments?
Wes_W Thursday, January 21st at 12:27PM EST (link)I guess that since it has been such a good week the comments section felt it was necessary to post my comment twice
It sure is nice to feel the power my new Senator-elect is wielding
The_Rebel (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:26PM EST (link)and he hasn’t even been seated yet.
I never thought I'd be saying this
neyney Thursday, January 21st at 1:32PM EST (link)but thank you Massachusetts voters from the bottom of my heart!
I can't wait until the final headline.
jeffreywturner (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:39PM EST (link)It needs to be in all caps and read simply:
“OBAMACARE: FAIL”
“Life is too short, can’t we all just eat pork and kill some terrorists?”
or- Obamacare dead, buried next to Ted Kennedy
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 2:41PM EST (link)n/t
Told you so
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:48PM EST (link)I posted this yesterday:
“The Obamacare legislation is dead. It will now pass quietly into the night, as Congress turns to “important issues” like jobs. Within the next month, everyone in the MSM will have forgotten this bill, sitting in limbo between the Chambers. It will be like it never happened.”
Note the following statement:
“I don’t think we have to wait for health care to be resolved one way or the other before we move to jobs,” said Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa. “We need to put a jobs bill on the table very soon, certainly in the next few weeks.”
I think it is time for me to buy a lottery ticket.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
So Pelosi doesn't care about the tens of thousands dying each year?
bk (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:52PM EST (link)Isn’t that why they were saying this bill was needed immediately?
Ahh...details, schmetails, bk. I mean the next thing ya
eburke (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 2:25PM EST (link)know you’ll be bringing up such superfluous points as the fact that even if this reform had passed, the benefits would not have kicked in for another 3 years.
Where’s your compassion, man?
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Unified Patriots
More evidence of my ability to see the obvious death of Healthcare
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 4:10PM EST (link)From the Corner:
“White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the bill is moving to the ‘back-burner’.
“The president believes it is the exact right thing to do,” Gibbs said. “By giving this some time, by letting the dust settle, if you will, and looking for the best path forward.”
He said the president has “a very full plate” with financial reform and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (all of which poll better than health-care) and would leave it up to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to “continue to look to the best way forward.”
Didn’t someone around here just bring up the Monty Python Dead Parrot skit?
By the middle of next week it is going to be, “What Healthcare bill? We have no idea what youa re talking about”
In the State of the Union I expect, “Let me be clear. I have always been consistent on this point. I have never wanted to pass Healthcare legislation, and it has never been a priority in my administration.”
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
Sargeant Schultz strikes again!
muffin Thursday, January 21st at 4:15PM EST (link)I know nothing.
I sure hope this thing is deader than a doornail. Funny how the election of one Senator can make all the Democrats run for cover!
Muffin in Florida
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
Yes, they just got wind of this at DKos
sharonmcp (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 4:39PM EST (link)and they are fit to be tied!
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan
with all this plus the scotus descision
kyle8 (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 5:02PM EST (link)there just might be some suicides from the moonbats. “OH NO! My brave new hopey changey world is dissolving before my eyes, we’ve been betrayed!!!”
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
Those evil right wingers, obstructionists, unamerican and uneducated subjects ambushed the healthcare reform.
antisocial (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:52PM EST (link)We were on precipice of historic reform. This is VRWC.
Obama Doctrine – Boot On The Throat
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Moe, I'm laughing right along with you!
muffin Thursday, January 21st at 12:54PM EST (link)What a great day! Sun is shining, obamacare is dead, the democrats are shaking in their boots. What else could one ask for? It’s Truly Terrific Thursday.
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
Time for the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch?
civil truth (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 12:59PM EST (link)The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
Would the Dems still be running for the hills
TxCon (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:06PM EST (link)had this election taken place in say Mississippi instead of Massachusetts? It would still be a 59-41 margin, but I think the fact that it happened in Kennedy’s home state stunned them and it scares the holy hell out of them.
Would the Dems still be running for the hills
TxCon (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:06PM EST (link)had this election taken place in say Mississippi instead of Massachusetts? It would still be a 59-41 margin, but I think the fact that it happened in Kennedy’s home state stunned them and it scares the holy hell out of them.
I hear you laughing Mo
chbroussard (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:20PM EST (link)I just sent an email to Speaker Pelosi thanking her for her many contributions in helping to elect Scott Brown, and I was laughing out loud as I was typing it. She has laughed at, mocked, and insulted conservatives and the grassroots movement on an almost daily basis. I guess the old saying is true–What goes around comes around.
The geister kicking will continue right on through Nov 2010 pelosi nt
bobojake (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:21PM EST (link)Ding Dong,
muffin Thursday, January 21st at 1:23PM EST (link)Ding, dong, the wicked witch (political future) is dead.
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
I enjoy my schadenfreude with extra butter and salt
neyney Thursday, January 21st at 1:31PM EST (link)Pass the schadenfreude please! The desperation of the Dems is delicious. The best comment I’ve seen today is this one “hey Nancy, we won” The sun is shining in my part of Texas, the Dems are on the run, and life is soooo GOOD!
Party Discipline Differences
kaelon (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:32PM EST (link)This is really an example of how the Democratic Party does not operate as a single, cohesive unit; they are a fractious collection of often openly-bickering factions, each with different stakes and interests. Conservatives, on the whole, agree with much more of substance than Liberals do.
Ahh the winds have changed
MGamo (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:33PM EST (link)Trying to pass the bill gung ho, they fell flat on their faces. They’re gonna have to take their time and get our input otherwise it’ll be worse than 1994 for em.
“A man who never quits is never defeated.” – Fred D. Thompson
MGamo- I don't want them to do
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 2:50PM EST (link)anything any differently. As it is, they will all now run to the middle, the word Progressive will die out for awhile, they will all become moderate Democrats again, in hope of being re-elected. Problem is, we all know what liars they all are and will forever be.
Can we say the bill
Greg (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:35PM EST (link)got buried with Teddy?
Tea Bagged!
patriotparty1 (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:38PM EST (link)They gave it to us, so now it is OUR term.
marxist progressives, you have just been
TEA BAGGED!!!!!
While I feel just a tad funny saying that Ms. Coakley got tea bagged, I believe it’s not only time to take back our country, it’s time to take back the meaning of tea partier, tea bagging, and really, all things tea. Scott Brown represents a voice against those who have abused their power. We, the strong, who are fed on the delicious nectar of freedom, hearby reclaim ‘tea’! Getting tea bagged now means any Big Government politician getting whipped by someone who believes in freedom. The Tea Baggers of Old (1773 types) would agree.
“Unlike cruel liberty that requires you to stand and take responsibility for your choices, kind tyranny requires only that you kneel and surrender your choices.”
Now you're talkin..
speciallist (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 6:06PM EST (link)5
Wonder how Nancy likes her crow prepared?
muffin Thursday, January 21st at 1:44PM EST (link)nt
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
Moe sez...
IronDioPriest (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:46PM EST (link)“If you’re wondering why Speaker Pelosi, who currently has something like a seventy vote majority in the House, is incapable of shepherding through a bill deemed critical to her caucus – well, one could go into great detail in describing why, but really: “not very good at her job” will do just fine.”
I think the answer is simpler Moe. The bill may have been critical to [i]her[/i] caucus, but it was anathema to the vast majority of Americans, many of whom are represented by Democrats.
It’s not necessarily that Pelosi is bad at her job (although I agree the case can be made). It’s more that the people she represents and the agenda she supports are far, far outside the mainstream. The failure of this agenda is evidence of it, and the exact same thing can be said of Reid and Obama. I think it is their rank Leftism – more than their legislative and administrative ineptitude – that is to blame for their failure to usher this through.
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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Pelosi did a bad job
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 2:59PM EST (link)and when she couldn’t pull any more pranks within the procedures of the House, and, she didn’t have enough loans from the Chinese to buy more votes from her members, she had no choice but to throw in the towel. Didn’t she just say one or two days ago that the election in Mass. made no difference to the Obamacare bill? Didn’t she say something like- “Let me be clear, we will move ahead with this legislation.”?
Only a leftist would make any excuses for Cruella Pelosi!
I respect your rebuttal of my point...
IronDioPriest (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 3:08PM EST (link)…but if you’re accusing me of making excuses for Pelosi, or of being a Leftist, you’re barking up the wrong tree pally.
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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First- I guess the correct word would be "gally"
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 3:33PM EST (link)and when you say-
“It’s not necessarily that Pelosi is bad at her job (although I agree the case can be made). It’s more that the people she represents and the agenda she supports are far, far outside the mainstream.”
So according to you, it’s the people and agenda that are to blame, not the job Pelosi is doing?
ps- I guess if you want to get techinical
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 3:35PM EST (link)you’re right, Pelosi is good at being a Communist, and ruling over “her house” in that manner.
Dude, chill
IronDioPriest (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 5:45PM EST (link)I’m saying that Pelosi represents people and interests that are far outside the mainstream. The people in her district, and the “progressive” caucus are who she answers to, and the American people outside of her “Progressive” influences – many of whom are represented by Democrats – are not on board.
She could be the world champion at selling snow to Eskimos, and she wouldn’t have been able to force this through, because her way is not what Americans outside of her limited constituency want.
Am I being clear, or are you still thinking I’m a Leftist?
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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Lessons for the GOP
Kyle-MI (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:48PM EST (link)What can we learn from Pelosi and the Democrats so we do not make the same mistakes if/when the GOP regains power? The Democrats gained power by running for power for its own sake. They ran conservative blue dog Democrats in conservative districts and states but the leadership (at least) had no intention of being responsive to the conservative inclination of the voters in those districts. They tried to play the big tent game, but found out that you cannot hold power that way and at the same time advance your agenda. Unfortunately for them, they cannot win any other way, because the majority of Americans are conservative (although not necessarily strongly so).
The GOP does not have to play that game. They can win a majority by running in conservative districts and states because there is a conservative majority of districts and states. They can and should be up front about conservative principles. Yes, we should welcome most politicians who want to run under the GOP banner as long as they are respectful of the majority. However we cannot advance a conservative agenda without a conservative majority – a majority of the legislator, not just of the GOP. Moving to the center, compromising away principles, and running liberal Republicans in liberal districts and states will no more work for the GOP than the blue dog strategy worked (long term) for the Dems. Under such a strategy you can have either power or principles but not both.
Rush just declared it OFFICIALLY DEAD.
Third Street (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 1:55PM EST (link)And it sure looks that way to me. Think I’ll go get a checkup to celebrate.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Yep. Shanklin's "The day Obamacare Died" nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 2:00PM EST (link)My apologies to Don McLean.
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 2:15PM EST (link)Bye, bye Ms. Stinky Cowpie
Scott drove his Chevy, Beat the Heavy
and then pissed in your eye.
And the real true Americans drank some bourbon and rye
And sang PelosiCare has finally died,
Because the POTUSprompter had lied.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Tbone- That there is funny
Scope (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 3:06PM EST (link)the shame of you calling Cruella Pelosi Mrs, Stinky Cowpie. Is cowpie kinda like poop? I don’t know cause I usually wear shoes.
Yes, a cowpie is poop.
Tbone (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 4:16PM EST (link)Consider this an important safety tip.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Not to be kicked on a hot day
muffin Thursday, January 21st at 4:18PM EST (link)Funny lyrics Tbone.
Fortitudine vincimus – By endurance we conquer
They haven't given up yet
clintonformccain Thursday, January 21st at 2:35PM EST (link)This just means that they are on to crafting a new reconciliation version of the bill to cram down the throats of the American voter.
They’ll do all the new taxes now and promse to pass some benefits next year.
Hey Nancy!
sharonmcp (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 3:01PM EST (link)Kiss my astroturf!
“Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” ~ Ronald Reagan
I have to say it
77redcounties Thursday, January 21st at 3:42PM EST (link)Is she serious?, Is she serious ? LOL
I would have loved to be within earshot of her when Brown was named winner in MA
Oklahoma. 77 counties, all red last election, only state in the union with not a single blue county. We are not only fly over, we are fly around.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
I'll bet...
IronDioPriest (Diary) Thursday, January 21st at 5:48PM EST (link)I’ll just bet she let the “Effin-heimer” fly a few dozen times, right in a row!
“If we finally fail in this great and glorious contest, it will be by bewildering ourselves in groping for the middle way.”
-John Adams, 1776
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This is gonna be sweeter than '94
majorkong Thursday, January 21st at 6:27PM EST (link)Looking forward to Spring and nice weather. Patriots are fired up across the country and it’s going to get plenty loud come Election Day in November. We are not going to let these Marxists forget how they treated us. Maybe not quite “Morning in America”, but I do believe we are out of the darkest hours of the night.
CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES rule and
dudette Friday, January 22nd at 5:51AM EST (link)that is what all our candidates must have and must run on. Forget what party you are in; Brown barely mentioned the GOP but he mentioned his values. This is not to diminish the importance of two party system but that it resonates better with voters to actually talk about common sense principles and vote for them. The word Republican has become a dirty word—made so by the media–sort of like when Gore Vidal made “mother” a bad word…or was it Mailer? One of those disheveled writers…we can take over and re-mold the GOP with our vision and values but we dont need their label or their name right now.
What Fun To Watch Pelosi Eat Her Words
conservativegeorgian43 (Diary) Friday, January 22nd at 7:51AM EST (link)Wednesday: we are pressing on and will not give up.
Thursday: oops!
What fun this week has been!
Thank-you people of Massachusetts
bforman Friday, January 22nd at 10:05AM EST (link)I take back all that I have ever said about Massachusetts, I might actually visit there one of these days.
Provisions
olddog Friday, January 22nd at 8:18PM EST (link)pertaining to the health-care bill were installed in the stimulus, the defense budget, and many other bills they have passed, that will be the way they will do it. by adding a little here and there with every single thing they pass. they are like vipers in the night waiting to bite you, when you least expect it they will talk the talk, but not walk the walk, as they cut us apart a little at a time., as they have been doing, . shredding our constitution by little bits at a time, over time. We must require every single law passed be of single purpose, and meet before imposed, all constitutional requirements. Its harder to remove a law that to pass one.!!!!! Get rid of the old guard in D.C. install principled people who love this country for what it is.
Support our troops, now1
One Old Dog
LIVE FOR FREEDOM
olddog Friday, January 22nd at 8:20PM EST (link)so our children, might also.
One Old Dog