I'm cynical... is the tax increase for millionaires the house's way to kill the Health Care bill?

[scheming daemons]

Personally, I think the wealthy should pay more taxes to help fund the Health Care proposal...

... but does this tax increase give the blue dogs and moderate repukes an excuse to vote against reform?


I'm hopeful that it will pass anyway..... but my radar is going off that this is somebody's attempt to "poison pill" the thing.

[babylonsister]

1. Just found this-I was wondering about them dawgs, too.

http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2009/07/will-blue-dogs-vote-for-uninsu.php

Will Blue Dogs Vote For Uninsured Constituents?

By Bara Vaida


There has been a lot of talk this week that House Blug Dogs may prove to be spoilers in the health care debate because of their concern that the legislation will cause the deficit to balloon. But Nate Silver, author of the blog FiveThirtyEight, thinks many Blue Dogs might be more receptive to health care reform than many would think.

The reason is that the uninsured rate in the majority of Blue Dog districts is above the national median uninsured rate of 14.6 percent. Silver looked at Gallup poll data in the 48 congressional districts that Republican presidential candidate John McCain won in 2008, but which also elected a Blue Dog Democrat as their congressman or woman. He found that 31 of those districts reported uninsured rates above the median. Constituents in the district that elected Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla. had the highest uninsured rate of the group, with 25.8 percent saying they don't have health insurance.

Click here for the chart and story.

Silver suggested that if those Democratic members representing districts with higher uninsured rates choose to vote against the Democrats' health care bill, the public should look into how heavily the members were lobbied and "then check to see if they're still in office four years hence."

[Egalitariat]

2. No. It's our way of getting their voters to pay for the health care of our voters

We are in a position right now to make it impossible for Republicans to ever get control of our Federal government again.

To the victors go the spoils. Whater you're seeing in the House right now is "the spoils".

Tell the Blue Dogs to eat it.

[scheming daemons]

3. I hope you're right