I am glad to see someone in a position of power, albeit in the House, call bullshit on the Baucus coalition of the willing charade. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, the head of the Democratic COngresional Campaign Committee suggested that it's close to "time's up" for the Senate finance committee to get it's job done.
I'm glad he goes after the lack of political will of the senate committee, as others in the senate are ready to move forward.
Wouldn't it be nice if someone in the senate started to speak in such bold terms?
From the Hill
"What concerns me about what's happened in the Senate Finance Committee is that they've had a whole lot of time to work these things out, and just don't seem to be able to break the impasse," Van Hollen said in an interview on the liberal "Bill Press Radio Show." "It doesn't seem to be as much about a disagreement over policy issues, and it seems more to be just the lack of the political will on behalf of some to get it done."
Van Hollen blamed the committee's slow work on Republicans, whom he asserted were unwilling to make the needed "tough decisions" to craft a healthcare bill.
"At some point that's going to have to happen, and the question is when do you reach that breaking point?" the Maryland Democrat said when asked if Senate Democrats should end negotiations. "At some point they're going to have to pull the plug on that process, and when they do that is something they're in a better position to know."
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