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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: The Emerging CW: Bad News For Health Insurance Reform
The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: Health Care Bill May Be Pushed to Next Year
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Currently reading http://bit.ly/K7gJD Not in 2009, not EVER! #tcot #iamthemob 18 days ago |
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Top Dems: Obama Won't Get Health Care Bill in 2009 http://bit.ly/41SD5n #postrank #politics 18 days ago |
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Many dems think HC this year ain't going to happen: http://bit.ly/3CHfOE 18 days ago |
The Emerging CW: Bad News For Health Insurance Reform
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Lexington sums up an argument, coming from various quarters, on the consequences of the GOP doing well today: It could make it harder for Mr Obama to get his agenda through the
Senate. Democrats from red and purple states are nervous enough
already. If they think voters are recoiling from Mr Obama's policies,
their support for him will grow more guarded and conditional. And we now have news that the Senate Democrats may be unable or unwilling to move a health insurance bill until the new year. Marc goes further: ...
The Note's Must-Reads for Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The Note —
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The Washington Times’ Sarah Abruzzese and David C. Lipscomb: “McDonnell Win Buoys GOP Hopes” LINK
The Washington Times’ Joseph Curl: “Deeds’ Supporters Feel Weight of Failed Campaign” LINK
USA Today's Kathy Kiely: "Republican McDonnell takes Va. governorship" LINK
Politico’s Andy Barr: “GOP dominates in Virginia” LINK
HEALTH CARE:
ABC News’ Jonathan Karl: “Top Dems: Obama Won’t Get Health Care Bill in 2009” LINK
The Washington Times’ Jennifer Haberkorn: “GOP Set to Unveil Its Health Plan LINK ...
The Note: Change Election - GOP Finds Hope; Democrats Find Fear; Independents Find Power
The Note —
... (And has the push to have gotten health care done long before campaign season ever looked more prescient -- or appear, even now, more distant?) ...
Health Care Bill May Be Pushed to Next Year
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
The big news essentially buried by yesterday's elections: Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News "it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was 'absolutely confident' he'll be able to sign one by then." ...
Congress set to delay health-care bill
The Reaction —
... President Obama may think he's getting a bill to sign soon, or at least this year, but it looks like Congress will postpone legislation until the new year: ...
Senior Democrats: Government Health Care Bill A “No-Go” This Year
Say Anything —
... . Today unnamed senior Democrat sources were calling the prospect a “no-go.” ...
Reform this year or not?
Political Animal —
REFORM THIS YEAR OR NOT?.... A senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News yesterday that getting health care reform done in 2009 is " a no-go ." Soon after, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was asked, "Will you pass health care reform this year?" He replied, "We are not going to be bound by any timetables. We are going to do this as quickly as we can." What's the trouble? It's ...
Congress Set to Delay Health-Care Bill
The Moderate Voice —
... President Obama may think he’s getting a bill to sign soon, or at least this year, but it looks like Congress will postpone legislation until the new year: ...
The Left Is In Full Retreat
The Next Right —
... number of factors are conspiring against the Senate version of the bill: a Republican boycott on the Environment and Public Works Committee, a new EPA analysis that could take at least five weeks and wide-ranging disagreements among six competing Senate committee leaders who have jurisdiction.
“Some people are talking about not doing it until after the 2010 election,” Commerce Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said Tuesday.
ABC News reports Top Dems: Obama Won't Get Health Care Bill in 2009
Senior ...
