The Final Sell Out - Obama backs down on removal of Corn Husker Kickbacks

[jonathon]

Basically, Montana & Conneticut keep their special subsidies for Medicaid (edit) while the rest of the nation shovels out for it.

Yes, Barack, reward Senator Nelson for advancing anti-choice language in the bill.

This bill is atrocious. And, it will just get worse as the White House plays...ANYTHING for a deal.

As of now, they don't have the votes for this atrocity according to the same article. Let's keep our fingers crossed it holds.

WASHINGTON – The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week, even as the White House's top political adviser said he was "absolutely confident" in its prospects.

The administration gave signs of retreating on its demands that senators jettison special home-state deals sought by individual lawmakers that have angered the public.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs predicted House passage this week, before Obama travels to Asia, a trip he postponed to push for the bill.

"This is the week where we will have this important vote," Gibbs said. "I do think this is the climactic week for health care reform."

Political strategist David Axelrod said Democrats will persuade enough lawmakers to vote "yes." The House GOP leader, Ohio Rep. John Boehner, took up the challenge, acknowledging Republicans alone can't stop the measure but pledging to do "everything we can to make it difficult for them, if not impossible, to pass the bill." Republicans believe they may get help from Democrats facing tough re-election campaigns.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100314/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_overhaul

[Marr]

1. If this bill fails to pass, the post-game analysis will certainly be interesting.

While I would consider it a clear denunciation of triangulation and corporate appeasement, I suspect the entire mass media will call it 'a message from citizens that Obama is too liberal'.

[Edweird]

2. Win, Lose or Draw, that will be the message. From the MSM and the WH.

On everything.

[Marr]

3. Very true.

That's always the message from the corporate media. Just today, I watched Chris Matthews and his little panel discussing whether or not Obama will be able to convince anyone that he's a moderate during election season. I think even his biggest boosters around here would have to admit that Barack Obama is no liberal, but that's what they were pushing.

It was almost funny.