W.H. didn’t make calls backing public option

The White House did not lobby senators on the Finance Committee before they rejected two amendments that would have added a public option to the panel’s healthcare reform plan.

The lack of political pressure from President Barack Obama and his lieutenants is the latest indication of the White House’s lagging interest in passing healthcare reform that calls for a large government role.

Despite consistently calling for the idea of a government-run health plan to keep pressure on private companies, Senate leaders say neither the president nor any White House officials lobbied Democrats on the Finance Committee, which voted down two public option amendments offered by Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday.

Both Schumer, who is vice chairman of the Democratic Conference, and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) say they are unaware of any phone calls from the administration to Finance Democrats to push for a successful vote on the amendments.

http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/healthcare/61289-wh-didnt-make-calls-on-public-option

*Sigh*

is the way I read it.

That is bullshit.

....who needs prosecution...

He should his cards when he was in the Senate.

is now the President. Or maybe the memo telling him had a typo; instead of "You are now the President", it said, "You are not the President." I'm sorry, there's no excuse for this.

and make those pretty, sermon-like speeches.

As Homer Simpson once said, "Trying is the first step toward failure."

That, not anything the Republicans can throw at him, is he greatest risk to his hopes for a successful presidency.

:thumbsup:

healthcare reform "efforts".

along with the leaks coming from Tauzin and Baucus, and the lack of any push for a public option (the way we define it, not his weasely definition) in any of his speeches.

I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that we were ripped off brutally last November. Our president lied to us and extracted our last bit of hope before turning on us.

And yes, I was an Obama supporter from the first moments of his campaign in 2007.

from a fellow primary and general election battler.

I just laughed, so many have not waken up to it yet.

I'm sorry :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Notified via an IM about someone posting something very harsh about President Obama? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Edited to add. I always enjoy your posts and I am defiantly not laughing at you.

they were worried about me because I have rational thought.

It isn't very hard to spot---just find the people who are bending over backwards to rationalize Obama's corporatist behavior.

I was for him from the beginning, donated time and money, and until fairly recently thought he could be an FDR-type leader. He's done a great job disabusing me of that naive hope.

....stepping up to be a LBJ-type leader....

....we now know this 'healthcare reform bill' is going to be worthless crap....NO robust Public Option for all, then NO mandate to force everyone to buy insurance....they're to take a bad system and make it worse....

....this whole exercise has set real healthcare form back decades....

I was not! I was a Hillary person and I think we would have been better off with her as the POTUS and health reform would have beenn acted on before Teddy's death. What a shame! What a waste!!

:rofl:

this movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chess_Players

:think:

Exactly why I don't bother much with DU anymore.

All the idiots reacting to this and they couldn't even begin to explain what good it would have done to have Obama beat his head against a wall.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4085289

He went to bat for the Baucus plan (without the PO, of course).

Or a bull-shit bill at best.

I think, with Obamas help, we very well may get change that actually causes things to be worse, AND everybody is going to say that healthcare reform has been passed so there is no reason to revisit it for 50 years or so.
The worst of everything.
Oh, yeah, and those sweetheart deals for the pharmaceutical and insurance companies. I think that is the the corporations ripping us off with the approval and enforcement of the government.

More like getting his ass kicked in checkers.

In another dimension, George W. Bush would have already had Single Payer implemented.

of that committee.

or not...

Dean, Schumer and Harkin have all said that they are 100% sure that the public option will be in the conference bill.


Some folks need a no vote now so that they can vote yes later.


Seems rather obvious.


The fact that the President didn't make any phone calls is a good sign, as we know that when it is needed he is a phonoholic.

I agree with you, gc...


But the hate around here, just like poop, floats.

"Fly paper for the perpetually digruntled."

And Cake Girl keenly observed.. "A siren call to all the long standing Obama detrators and ignorant of the big picture to boot"

the Senate then in Committee get the bill we WANT. I think they saw early on they weren't going to get ANYTHING from the Reps or Blue Dogs, so just let the course of events play out until they are in a position to actually DO something themselves. Just my opinion, based on stuff that Harkin and Shumer have said.

Before when I've been frustrated/angry with Obama, it has turned out he had a plan all along, just didn't see fit to share it with me :7

:rofl:

been paying attention.

(when he refused to use his influence on the blue dogs to get them to vote for Rockefeller's amendment?)


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