The Never-ending Obamacare Debate
Done by the end of this year? Ha!
Forget about asking Santa Claus. Members of Congress already can guess what they’re getting for Christmas: a nice, long working holiday in Washington, D.C. — at least if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid gets his way. According the U.S. Senate website, the “tentative schedule” (italics theirs) for the remainder of the legislative year is one big “T.B.D.”
Like parents scrambling for Tickle Me Elmos a decade or so ago, the White House and Reid are currently jostling senators for votes in support of Obamacare, with the hope of passing a health-care bill before the winter recess. Time, however, is not on their side. Take one glance at the Senate calendar, and it’s clear that early spring, not the Yuletide season, is when President Obama should actually expect this lump of coal to arrive on his desk (if it arrives at all).
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Of course, if Obamacare were actually, you know, popular, it wouldn’t be taking many, many months to make its way through Congress. At this point, the argument to pass Obamacare is: Yes, it’s a sucky bill that will do damage to the Democrats in 2010 if it’s passed. But it’ll do even more damage to Democrats in 2010 if it’s not passed!
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November 13th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Zero is doing a lot of stuff to hack off voters, which cause his support even more (civilian trials for terrorists being the latest issue). Though not aligned with ObamaCare alienate voters.