Dems Fast-Track Health Care For State Of Union Address

Only one thing is important to Democrats as they push health care reform America doesn't want. Forget about all sides being heard. Put aside massive pork to buy votes from individual pols. Forget whether it's only a bad bill, or a terrible one. Pay offs to special interests and industries be damned. The orator-in-chief must have it for his State of the Union address.

What the American people think and want doesn't matter to them at all. They've been given their marching orders by commissar Obama and off they go in lockstep as one. You see, as things stand, he doesn't have much of anything good to talk about then at all, only the failure that he has wrought.

Forget democracy, just give me my health care bill. So what if it destroys the best health care system in the world. We won't be stuck using it. Only the average American citizen and the illegal alien will!

These bastards will pay for this and the price may be much steeper than they think.

Instead, Democratic aides said the final compromise talks would essentially be a three-way negotiation involving top Democrats in the House and Senate and the White House, a structure that gives unusual latitude to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California.

Bypassing a formal conference committee enables Democrats to omit time-consuming procedural steps in the Senate and prevents Republicans from trying to delay the final negotiations.

The unofficial timetable calls for passage by the time Obama delivers his State of the Union address, probably in early February. The plan is to skip the formal meetings, reach an agreement, then have the two houses vote as quickly as possible. A 60-vote Senate majority would be required in advance of final passage.

Comments

[Sharon]

Disgusting... Praying for that 41st vote out of Mass. Wouldn't the irony be delicious? Please keep some attention on Brown. Thx, Dan.

[wolfwalker]

"These bastards will pay for this and the price may be much steeper than they think."

I'll believe that when I see it happen, and not a second before. I long ago gave up on expecting the American electorate to do the right thing.

[xerocky]

Getting it done before the state of the Union is/was/has been Obama's only priority. He wants’ to stand up there and declare himself to once again be "historic". Otherwise he would have shown even a trace of interest of what's actually in the bill. So far, he hasn't.

[azlibertarian]

Wait a minute....

Didn't they just say, as a matter of a couple of weeks ago, that they were doing a "hard pivot" to the topic of jobs?

And now they're flipping back to getting this Health Care Reform (sic) passed before the SOTU?

Is this Short-Attention-Span-Theater we're watching?

[templar knight]

I'm with you, wolfwalker. Half the electorate is on the government dole, one way or the other, so it takes only a small percentage of voters to swing an election, and these usually vote Democratic.

When Al Franken was elected Senator from Minnesota, I knew the fate of our country was sealed. The fact that Franken and Grayson from Florida could be elected to the Congress was proof the electorate was dumbed down to the point they could not ascertain who was a decent person, much less who was qualified.

Our universities were taken over by liberals in the 1960s, public schools in the 1970s and 1980s, and we now are reaping what has been sown. Look for an economic disaster in the coming months as our debt instruments are rejected by foreign buyers and more and more debt is monetized. The beat goes on!

[Anon]

Let's not forget that Minnesota also elected Jesse Ventura, so maybe Franken is some kind of weird upper midwest anomally...sort of like how in CA they're always electing B list stars to public office.

It will be interesting to see if the Dems can get the same level of turnout in 2010 and 2012 as they did for 2008...it seems that the most "progressive" elements are already disappointed w/Obama and so maybe the youth vote will stay home, though I suspect we'll see the same extra high minority turnout but only in the presidential election.

On education I still keep naively expecting liberals to wake up to their mistakes since the answers for improving education are so insanely simple. But, Dan's post on Berkeley high school's plans to eliminate science labs because too many white kids take them shows that they will never "wake up" what they will do is continue to lower standards further and further so that eventually they will be so low that the lowest performing students will become average, and then they'll be happy.

Idiocracy here we come.

[mark l.]

"Our universities were taken over by liberals in the 1960s, public schools in the 1970s and 1980s, and we now are reaping what has been sown. Look for an economic disaster in the coming months as our debt instruments are rejected by foreign buyers and more and more debt is monetized."

we've been running an increasing debt, based largely upon the success of previous generations. The dollar doesn't have to fall below parity to other nation's currencies for us to collapse under debt. 2010 is going to be the the point in us history where hyperinflation will determine the rate at which we collapse. When obama was elected, I glanced at our military budget, roughly 682 billion, and felt that obama would try and shave 250 billion off of it to pay for his long term policies. That bubble was popped when they dropped a 780 billion dollar stimulus on the budget. Ironic that it cost just under the TARP bailout, but upon further review, TARP will wind up costing us about 300 billion. The 300 billion will actually fall under the amount that will be diverted to bailout fannie/freddie. The obama admin is completely out of touch with fiscal policy which would move us towards finanical sustainibility. on top of the stimulus, we also increased govt spending by 16%, 500 billion.

we'll be another trillion in the hole for 2010, and when the obviousness of the fall in the dollar will exceed the rate at which equities expand, foreign investors will be dumping equities en masse.

will it be like germany in the 1930's?
probably not, as we are still one of the most productive countries in the world in regards to food production. we will move towards a bartering system. govt will collapse at a commensurate rate as the devaluing of the dollar.

our educuation system?
championing global warming with the consequences being advertised to occur 100 years from now, while our complete collapse of govt will occur within the next 5-10 years. too much liberal arts, not enough accounting classes.