If I tell you something do you promise not to tell anybody else?

[Botany]

There will be no health care bill this year ..... end of story.

I just talked to my friend who is my congress critter ... the House is in recess until next year ....
anything you hear about having to get a bill done before Christmas is pure hype .... and that includes
the White House and Harry Reid too.

[endless october]

1. cut short their vacation to help us proles?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

yeah, right.

[femrap]

2. They can blame it on

the coming snow storm to DC.

[bigwillq]

3. Why does there have to be a timeline?

:shrug: When the bill is done, it's done. I hope it's sooner rather than later. But if it's a good bill, I don't mind waiting a few months. I think it wasn't a good call to set a specific date. It just looks bad when you don't meet that deadline. And from what I know, wasn't there an original start-up date of the bill of 2013? :shrug:

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. They don't want to be debating it during an election year.

[bigwillq]

6. But if the bill is not finished

why push it? :shrug: Why pass a weak bill when you can keep working on it and get it right?

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. As bad as it is (IMO), they want it out of the news cycle in 2010.

[bigwillq]

9. They never really wanted it "in"

in the first place then.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Yep. And this is becoming more obvious by the day.

[timeforpeace]

4. Another unforced error by Obama, setting the Christmas deadline as though it meant something.

[WeDidIt]

7. The House already produced their bill

The Senate is the body of Congress working to get a bill done before the end of the year.

Then the two bills will go to conference in January.