Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) [now Lee and Woolsey too] oppose the Health Care Reform bill.

[tishaLA]

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), chairman of the powerful Rules Committee, wrote in a CNN op-ed today that the health care bill should be scrapped entirely.

"The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago," Slaughter wrote.

She listed her problems with the Senate bill: an individual mandate, no public option, no antitrust exemption and the Nelson abortion language, among other things.

"Supporters of the weak Senate bill say "just pass it -- any bill is better than no bill. I strongly disagree," she wrote. "It's time that we draw the line on this weak bill and ask the Senate to go back to the drawing board. The American people deserve at least that." Talking Points Memo

[joeybee12]

1. Good...why let a few ass**les in the Senate dictate what the majority want...n/t

[golddigger]

2. Here we go!

Everyone is going to want there pound of flesh.

[tishaLA]

4. You're right. She's been joined by Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey

[jgraz]

19. We can always count on Barbara Lee to do the right thing.

[FLAprogressive]

3. Go Louise!!!!

[w4rma]

5. Good. (nt)

[rateyes]

6. That's good news. The House Bill only passed by 5 votes.

If they lose a few more progressives, the conference committee will have to pony up or lose healthcare reform altogether. That's the LAST thing Obama or the Democratic Leadership wants to happen. It may force Reid's hand to go the reconciliation route.

Let's keep working on the House Progressives.

[FLAprogressive]

10. I think we need to push hard on Grayson to oppose anything without a public option. Maybe DeFazio or

Weiner as well.

[Parker CA]

21. I think it was fewer than five. I think it was only two. No wiggle room.

[ClarkUSA]

7. Pure grandstanding. She'll cave after cutting her own deal a la Sen. Nelson.

That's the only reason she's doing this.

[itsrobert]

8. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

Let the bashing of her begin by Obama Administration and the Obama can do nothing wrong crowd.

[Better Today]

9. I'm going to guess she knows something about how little is planned to

be improved in the reconciling committee? If not, why doesn't the House just send a better bill back to the Senate after the bills are reconciled?

[Blasphemer]

11. It's nice that she's speaking up but my guess is that the votes they will pick up..

will offset those that they lose. It seems pretty clear that they spoke with enough Reps to exact a promise of a vote contingent upon the differences in the House and Senate bills. There have been, in particular, reports of "Blue Dog" pickups.

[The Doctor.]

12. That's my girl!

It's cool to be in her district.

[Thickasabrick]

13. Yay nt

[golddigger]

14. Three cheers for

Rep. Slaughter, Lee and Woolsey!


:toast: :kick: :yourock:

edit for typo

[cali]

15. lol. now watch DU go through the ritual dance

of adulation followed by outrage and condemnation when Woolsey votes for something that does have mandates and doesn't have a public option.

[depakid]

16. High deductible, high copay junk insurance for all isn't health care reform

Indeed, in one of their rare victories, Democrats actually managed to filibuster something similar in effect- The Enzi bill- in 2005.

[Trillo]

17. Slaughter and supporters of the viewpoint likely have strong survival instincts,

they probably want to get reelected.

[LastNaturalist]

18. Yay! Better to have no health care reform than some!

[jgraz]

20. Better to have nothing than something that goes in the wrong direction

If this bill passes, it will be a disaster for the country, the Democratic party and liberal politics in general.