Did anyone see MTP today? Healthcare Reform has a 40% chance of passing. That was what David Gregory said today on Meet the press that he got from a source, I think he said from the Obama Administration. I repeatedly saw the hesitation in the voices of those who were being interviewed today regarding the healthcare summmit, "DO DEMOCRATS HAVE THE VOTES FOR RECONCILIATION?" On Meet The Press, CBS, CNN each time it was asked I could hear it in their voices and in their faces. They know it will be an uphill battle to pass this bill. I wasn't even convinced hearing speaker pelosi. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know this bill may be impossible to pass at this point with queasy spinless blue dogs. I think this will be the last straw that breaks the camels back if this bill fails.
It seems to me that most of the democratic party platform/agenda that President Obama campaigned on, got elected on, promised he would tackle is either on life support, kicked down the road or will never pass because of spinless democrats in congress/senate. Here we had a Supermajority and controlled all branches and yet we couldn't get not one major democratic legislation passsed yet. (healthcare, DADT, Immigration, Bank Regulatory Reform, Card Check, Cap N Trade)
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