FLASHBACK: Pelosi Pledges To Spend 'Whatever Time It Takes' To Pass Health Care Reform

[jefferson_dem]

Run time: 01:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8y3o9Q0KEg   Posted on YouTube: January 28, 2010 By YouTube Member: thinkprogress1 Views on YouTube: 3966   Posted on DU: March 22, 2010 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 226

 
FROM January 28, 2010

Pelosi Determined to Get Health Reform Done

Nancy Pelosi is probably my favorite politician. Not just because she has good values about what policies she supports, but because in a Washington that often seems obsessed with process, point-scoring, ego, and positioning she’s a rare leader who actually puts accomplish things that impact people’s lives in a positive way at the center of what she’s doing. And you see that loud and clear in this statement of her determination to do health reform:

As I said to some friends yesterday in the press, we will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people for their own personal health and economic security and for the important role that it will play in reducing the deficit.

Right on. Now she needs the Senate to cooperate. And I think it’s telling that in all the skeptical remarks I’ve heard from Senate Democrats over the past couple of weeks I’ve heard a lot about reconciliation and a lot about timing and a lot about pauses and a lot about this and a lot about that. What I haven’t heard anyone say is “I think looking back 10 or 20 years from now, the country would be better off if we don’t act on health reform.” They’re not saying it because it’s not true, which is why 60 of them voted for Obama’s vision of reform already. Now they need to get the job done. That means agreeing to use the reconciliation process to tweak the legislation they’ve already passed in order to accommodate some relatively minor concerns from the House.

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/pelosi-determined-to-get-health-reform-done.php

[nebenaube]

1. Pelosi is implicated in torture and the coverup...

"Impeachment is off the table"

[jefferson_dem]

2. Wow.

Thanks for that.

Now go start your own thread to whine in.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. K&R! n/t

[Sky Masterson]

4. Turns out that the best man for the job was a Woman ;)

And she is pretty damn good at what she does!
She did it!
She F'n did it! :woohoo:
:applause: :loveya: Nancy :loveya:
K&R