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The Note: The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, November 6, 2009
The Page by Mark Halperin: Pelosi Counts Votes; Obama Delays Hill Visit Until Saturday
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Obama to endorse House health care reform bill, but....
| Good but we need cost control measures from Senate bill too RT @wonkroom WH will come out for House health bill tomorrow http://tr.im/EidN 25 days ago |
| RT @wonkroom White House will come out strongly in support of the H.bill tomorrow,an administration source tells POLITICO: http://tr.im/EidN 25 days ago |
| About time! http://tinyurl.com/yzhgobt 25 days ago |
The Note's Must-Reads for Friday, November 6, 2009
The Note —
... Washington Times’ Jennifer Haberkorn: “House leaders race to finish health care bill” LINK
USA Today's Kathy Kiely: "Obama to visit House on eve of weekend health vote" LINK
The New York Times’ Carl Hulse and David Herszenhorn: “House Democrats Seek Allies for Health Care Vote” LINK
The Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery: “Democrats Wary of health-bill defections” LINK
Politico’s Chris Frates: “White House backs House bill” LINK
The Hill's Jared Allen: “Illegal immigration issue threatens healthcare vote” LINK ...
Pelosi Counts Votes; Obama Delays Hill Visit Until Saturday
The Page by Mark Halperin —
AFP/Getty Images Vote over the weekend after Obama rallies Dems on the Hill . And: AP has extensive details on the competing bills. But: Immigration and abortion issues could cost Dems crucial votes.
Obama to endorse House health care reform bill, but....
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
There's always a "but." In fact, Politico reports, the Obama administration will endorse the House bill, but the White House won't say that the House bill any better than the Senate bill, which they also endorse. Get it? This way the White House can be everyone's friend, rather than actually taking a stand for the strongest health care reform possible. When has the White House, any White House, ever had a problem saying that it preferred one bill over another? Of course, most worrisome is the fact that, in the end, it's not at all clear that the White ...
Obama administration officially (finally) supports House health insurance reform bill
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... , with this crowd, "There's alway a but..." At least the SAP clears the way for Obama to actually push members of the House Democratic Caucus to support the legislation. ...





