Go home, boys and girls! Fundraise! Go fishing! But you'd better hide from The People.

[seafan]

Hey, the Republican/Blue Dog/ConservaDem coffers will be even fatter after another month.


Reid bends on healthcare deadline, BREAKING, July 23, 2009

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is bending on the pre-recess deadline for a health reform bill.

"The Republicans have asked for more time, and I don't think it's unreasonable," Reid said at a noon press conference.

Reid's statement brings him in line with Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who on Wednesday told The Hill that Democratic leaders in the Senate prefer to "take a little longer to get it right."

Pelosi backs off recess healthcare deadline, BREAKING, July 23, 2009

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that the House can go home for its August recess without passing a massive overhaul.

Pelosi dismissed concerns expressed by many Democrats that a monthlong delay could give opponents more chances to rally opposition to the bill.

"I'm not afraid of August," Pelosi said. "It's a month."

That is different from what she said Wednesday and contradicts one of her fellow Democratic House leaders. On Wednesday, Pelosi had indicated that she supported staying into August, saying, "70 percent of the American people would want that."

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Go home, boys and girls! Fundraise! Go fishing!


But you all had better hide from your constituents.

My advice, for what it's worth: Resist the temptation. This is no time to pull punches. Go for the kill. ---- William Kristol, on Obama's health care reform

[sasquatch]

1. I don't know if I want to puke or cry or get super duper pissed

[kjackson227]

2. All of the above.

[goodboy]

3. Harry Reid needs to fuckin' go. forever. We need someone who'll

move the agenda forward, reign in the senate, and do the will of the American people.

and Harry Reid proves over and over again he's not the man for the job.

[abumbyanyothername]

4. All I can suggest is that

we use this time to organize a massive, 250,000 person plus, march into DC in support of single payer to greet the tanned and well-rested representatives when they get back.