“The more people find problems with the bill, the more they reject it. So [the Democrats] don’t let the American people have a significant opportunity to review it. They want to pass it quick before the American people get outraged and mad.”
It’s no secret
that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will do whatever it takes to get his version of a health care reform bill through the Senate by Christmas, even it means forcing his colleagues to remain in town.
“We’re going to finish this health care bill before we leave here,” he said. In tandem with Reid, Majority Whip *ick Durbin (D-Ill.) promised, “If it costs us Christmas Eve, or costs us Christmas Day or even more, we cannot let the people of this country down.”
But Peter Sepp, Vice President of Communications for the National Taxpayers Union, wonders whether Reid’s and Durbin’s insistence on a Senate passage by Christmas isn’t a false flag planted to distract the public and even fellow lawmakers. He suggests that the immediate goal may be to move the bill not only through the Senate, but through the House and over to President Obama’s desk by Christmas morning.
Since the House has adjourned, this would require House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call the members back to the capital for an extraordinary session which she might be willing to do. The question is: would rank-and-file Democrats go along with her? http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news177.htm