Health Care Stalled, Obama Looks To Pump Numbers, Twist Arms

Put these pieces together.

McConnell is going to throw up some road blocks:

It is looking like Mitch McConnell will object to the appointment of conferees to create a formal conference that would attempt to reconcile the House and Senate versions of Obamacare.

The problems are even bigger in the House. And with 72% of America against funding abortions with tax dollars, that's still a weighty wild-card. Meanwhile, they already lost NOW and others on the Left. He has no room to give Left, or Right on that issue.

This tells us that the White House has done some legwork in the House and found that the lower chamber is not going to adopt the Senate version as is, as Politico also reports this morning:

So, what can he do? Bribe, arm-twist and pivot to jobs in an effort to raise his numbers. Problem is, all he can do is talk. And when it comes to jobs, money via a paycheck talks and Obama and BS likely walk.

To top it all off, Louise Slaughter is saying, kill the bill. And the Constitutional challenges are growing. This is not a done deal. Damn the pessimists, full speed ahead.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, has declared that the Senate bill does not represent real reform and cannot be reconciled with the version that passed the House of Representatives. Instead, she recommended killing the Senate bill and starting all over.

"The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago," Slaughter wrote in an opinion piece appearing on CNN's website today.

Comments

[Reaganite Republican]

Well, momentum IS on our side- public support has been sliding for months

So which side is time on? Not theirs-

We need to deep-six this pig... Obama's "hard pivot" is surely
a sign of weakness, time to go for the jugular and put Dear Leader
back on his heels- Americans largely don't want this continuing lurch leftward... and
it needs to end NOW.

[KingShamus]

Well, you can spell Louise Slaughter without "laughter".