As if the fact that far left liberal activist judge Sonia Sotomayor will likely get confirmed to the Supreme Court isn’t enough to get your blood boiling… The Hill is reporting that House Democrats will drop a healthcare bill today.
House Democrats will introduce their full healthcare reform bill Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday while acknowledging she has much work left to do to win over members of her own caucus.
“We’re still on schedule. We have plans to vote for this legislation before we leave for the August recess,” Pelosi said at a news conference. Pelosi said, however, that the bill to be unveiled would have to undergo further changes during committee markup to garner enough support among Democrats. “It is just the beginning,” she said.
“It won’t be the finished product,” Pelosi said. “In order for us to be on schedule, we have to roll out legislation this week.”
That’s the bad news… but there is some good.
But even a Tuesday introduction, to be followed by possible committee action beginning before week’s end, represents a slight setback to the House Democratic leadership’s ambitious goal of passing a healthcare reform bill before the lower chamber departs for its summer recess on July 31.
Democrat Rep. Mike Ross from Arkansas said that many of the concerns of the Blue Dogs Healthcare Task Force were being addressed, but not in manner that would enable them to comfortably support the bill in its current form.
According to Ross, there are EIGHT “Blue Dog Democrats” who sit on the Energy and Commerce Committee who are also members of this Healthcare Task Force. If these eight Representatives do not support the legislation, passage would likely not succeed.
The following are the eight who appear to not support the current healthcare legislation.
John Barrow (GA-12)
Bart Gordon (TN-06)
Baron Hill (IN-09)
Jane Harman (CA-36)
Jim Matheson (UT-02)
Charlie Melancon (LA-3)
Mike Ross (AR-04)
Zack Space (OH-18)
I think a phone call or an email to these reps is certainly in order.
-Eric Odom
This president is an extremist with an agenda, and I believe the American people are beginning to see it. He is still very popular, but he cannot hide his extreme views for long. We have got to put pressure on the politicians in Washington, both Republicans and Democrates to fight these extreme issues that the left wing of the Democratic parties are pushing. The are foaming at the mouth with power right now, and it is killing them that they cannot even get the moderate dems to go along with this socialist medicine bill. I have said this in the past and will say it again, we cannot even let them get a small portion of this mandate through, because you know that when they even get a toe in the door they all come smashing through eventually. They will negotiate and get just a little, and then we will have a slow decline untill we are left like Canada, England and other countries with socialized health systems.
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The conservative supply side economics and corporate protectionism of the past 8 years have driven the country so deep into recession, it is admirable all that the Democrats are doing to fix things.
46 million americans with no health insurance!!! Private industry has shown over and over they can’t provide affordable medical insurance to a large part of our working population, it is about time the US joins the rest of the modern world in offering basic insurance to our working class and children.
It’s amazing that after the worst 8 years in modern history some of you still cling to your far right conservative ideals, despite the miserable failure and the disaster they created right before our eyes.
We need to make phone calls to Senator Hatch…he is getting so fed up he is wanting to walking away from the committee discussing the health care reform. He was interviewed on Fox News this morning. Call his office at (202) 224-5251 to encourage him to continue his fight for us. Contact your friends and relatives and get them to make phone calls too.
History has seen two other heads-of-state force through massive socialized reform like this in the recent past. Both nations became totally corrupt as their governments seized power, killed or imprisoned their own citizens, and became a scourge to the world.
The first was the CCCP-SSSR. We call it the United Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It’s Comrade-Premier, Joseph Jughashvili, known best as Joseph Stalin, was a mass murderer that out-lived, out-ruled, and out-killed the second person and nation in our example. The Hammer and Sickle became the monogram of this Empire and the best example of Communism failed and crumbled at the feet of his demise of natural causes.
The second was the Greater German Empire, ruled by the National Socialist German Workers Party, led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazis are best known for their mass murder, however their more insidious actions are often ignored. Hitler took Germany not by force, but by political might, being voted into office and taking control through the Reichstag, the German version of the House of Representatives. When Germany became a Nazi Empire, the people not only let it happen, they did so with cheers and smiles.
So President Barrack Hussein Obama, Chier Executive of the United States of America, shall go down in history. After all, trouble always comes in threes.
I lived through the depression, the patriotic years of WWII, saw America’s greatest years and now fear that my grandchildren and great grandchildren will not ever know what a great country this was. Our President and the democcratic left-wingers are ruining our country, stealing our liberties and making us socialistic so fast, a person can’t even keep up with the negative changes so quickly taking place under this adminstration. Our congressmen and Senators need to get a backbone and not be pushed into voting for bills which will leave us in debt for many years, indebted to China and others. The far-reaching effects are immeasurable and very urgent!
I was married once to an air Force officer in WWII and then to a Sailor who served during the Korean conflict. Did those men serve for nothing? Just to see America go down the tubes? Stand up against this “popular” president!
A retired First Grade Teacher and Former Baptist Preacher’s wife,
Kathleen rutherford
Montrose, Michigan
I am makiing an attempt to read the 1018 page Health legislation. How much have you been able to read?
There are 199 [PDF]references to the Commissioner; none of them say how the appointment will happen or who will make it, yet almost all of them refer to the “rule of the C” — “as specified by the C” “C shall establish”, etc.
Sounds like some one person will be appointed by government to freely establish and rules the health care of this country.
NO!
In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves–in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but ieaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit. ANDREW JACKSON
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Hi - I am extremely upset with the surtax on the wealthy to subsidize Health Reform. What channels do I have to get my voice heard? I am extremely concerned we are becoming more socialist. Do we really want our children to grow up relying on social handouts and not work for themselves?
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