Orszag: Some who are advocating delay on health care are just trying to kill it. (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Orszag: Some who are advocating delay on health care are just trying to kill it.

Late this week, a group of Blue Dog Democrats in the House and six “centrist” Democrats urged their leadership to delay action on health care reform. The White House has been insisting that Congress send him health care legislation by August, a deadline that seems to be fading. CNN’s John King asked White House budget director Peter Orszag about these developments:

ORSZAG: We have to remember: there are some who are advocating delay simply because they don’t have anything to put on the table. The typical Washington bureaucratic game of — ‘if you don’t have a better alternative, just delay in the hope that that kills something’ is partly what’s playing out here.

Orszag clarified that he wasn’t speaking about Blue Dog members or other “members of Congress and Senators who are actually actively participating in the debate.” But, he cautioned, “there are those who are advocating delay just as a desperation move to try to kill this.” Watch it:

A strategy memo authored by GOP consultant Alex Castellanos suggests that “it is crucial for Republicans to slow down what it calls ‘the Obama experiment with our health.’” The memo concludes, “If we slow this sausage-making process down, we can defeat it, and advance real reform that will actually help.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/19/orszag-health-care-delay/

[uponit7771]

1. We knew they would, it's time to use reconciliation process we have 51 votes now

...so screw the dems who don't want it an then finance more progressives dems to run against them.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Speaking truth to power, baby!!!

:thumbsup:

[Aloha Spirit]

3. Orszag *swoon*

anyone who thinks Obama's economic advisors are corporate hacks hasn't been paying attention to Orszag, who has Obama's complete trust and whose team produced an amazing budget.
Thanks for posting this!

Here's a link to a recent OMB blog posting on their proposal for managing healthcare costs.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/07/17/IMACUBend/

[FrenchieCat]

4. Of course. Passing Health Care via a Dem admin means

death to the GOP for at least 40 years!

they.cannot.afford.to.have.us.pass.anything.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. There are people like Sen Wyden...

... who honestly think they have a better idea who have formed an unholy alliance with people like Sen Nelson, who simply want to continue getting rich via the status quo.

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. And some who are trying to rush a shitty bill through are doing the same thing.

Too goddamn many games being played by the corporatist tools in Congress, and damn few actually offering any valid solutions (i.e. Dean, Kucinich, & Sanders)