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| Obama 'confident' health-care bill will pass |
| 2010-03-19 |
| President Obama claimed his first convert on health-care reform Wednesday, as senior Democrats, labor unions and an array of interest groups intensified their efforts to sway wavering lawmakers before a climactic vote in the House this weekend. House leaders expressed increasing optimism about pushing Obama's top domestic initiative to final passage, even as they continued to tinker with the last element of the package and their day for a vote appeared to slip to Sunday. Taking a break from his face-to-face efforts to win support for the measure, Obama made a rare appearance on Fox News Channel to declare that, after a year-long battle, Congress is finally poised to deliver the far-reaching overhaul to his desk. "I'm confident it will pass. And the reason I'm confident that it's going to pass is because it's the right thing to do," the president said in a sometimes testy interview with reporter Bret Baier, who repeatedly prodded him about special deals in the package that were used to win over recalcitrant lawmakers, as well as a much-criticized parliamentary maneuver that the House may employ. The interview interrupted a presidential schedule packed with calls to Capitol Hill, where House leaders said Obama has focused on the 37 House Democrats who voted against health-care legislation in November but may be open to supporting the latest package. Over the past few days, Obama has met privately with at least half a dozen dissenting Democrats in the Oval Office, and lobbied others by phone. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 For a guy who is against torture and waterboarding, Obama sure does torture the truth. Where have I heard "The means justifies the ends?" Oh yes, I recall, that was a Marxist maxim. Not telling the truth will catch up with Barry; the American people don't tolerate that very long. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-03-19 19:18 |
| #6 Boehner is demanding a roll call vote. Good. Now stick these bastards in November |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-19 19:15 |
| #5 If he's so confident it's going to pass, why doesn't he just go ahead and sign it? I know that the Constitution says a bill must be passed by both houses before the president signs it, but to O the Constitution is more of a guideline than a rule. Of course, since nobody knows what is in the bill (and according to Pelosi, we won't until it becomes law), Obama might as well sign a blank piece of paper and let Pelosi and Reid fill in the blanks anyway they want to. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-03-19 16:55 |
| #4 #2 Because 52nd through 57th states totally support it? What I want to know: Did ACORN and SEIU help with registering voters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto, and others several times over in our 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, and 57th states to get Barry elected?" |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-03-19 09:58 |
| #3 Barry's 2010 quasi legislative gift to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N‘COBRA) and the Provisional Government Republic of New Afrika (RNA). |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-19 07:28 |
| #2 Because 52nd through 57th states totally support it? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-03-19 04:11 |
| #1 "And the reason I'm confident that it's going to pass is because |
| Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 2010-03-19 01:46 |