Specter: Democrats getting 'angry,' will pass healthcare bill

[babylonsister]

Good!

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/85467-specter-dems-getting-angry-will-pass-healthcare


Specter: Democrats getting 'angry,' will pass healthcare bill
By Eric Zimmermann - 03/08/10 02:09 PM ET


Democrats in Congress are getting "angry" enough to push through healthcare reform, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) said today.

Speaking to reporters after President Obama's healthcare event outside Philadelphia today, Specter said frustration over Republican "obstruction" is making his caucus determined to move ahead.

"I think there's a lot more determination in the Congress now to get it passed," he said, according to a pool report. "I really think there's sort of reaction on the Democratic side of getting a little angry over the duration and intensity of obstruction and a lot more determination to see it through."

Specter also said that Obama had stepped up his role in the healthcare debate and is motivating Democrats

"The president's providing for more fiery leadership now," Specter said.

"That's the most fiery I've seen him since the early campaign," he added. "When I was listening to him I wished that he had given that in the State of the Union. If it's the State of the Union he would have reached a lot more people."

[rockymountaindem]

1. Any time here people

I'm not anxious to see this insurance company giveaway passed, but all this constant dithering is why people are getting fed up with the political process.

[ShortnFiery]

2. The Democratic "leaders" don't know ANGRY unless they pass this shitty mandated Senate Bill.

:grr: :thumbsdown:

[thereismore]

3. Mandates are necessary. The question is, will the cost be controlled. nt

[ShortnFiery]

4. No, without SINGLE PAYER, mandates are "corporate welfare" to the Insurance Cartel.

My God people, don't you know when you're being punked?!?

[thereismore]

11. Single payer has a mandate. It is covered through taxes that everybody is mandated to pay.

It's semantics to a large extent. I am a proponent of single payer too.

[Hello_Kitty]

23. No it's not semantics.

Single payer would cost the average middle class American less than half what the mandated private insurance will.

[thereismore]

29. Yes of course, but single payer has a mandate hidden in taxes. nt

[Hello_Kitty]

30. No shit. But it's a lot less money and not going directly to a corporation to skim 30%. eom

[thereismore]

31. Like I don't know that! No bad feelings, but Kitty I know all that. nt

[Hansel]

16. You'll be angry. A hell of a lot of other people won't. nt

[cliffordu]

28. Well...

BWAHAHAHAH Haahahahahah HAHAHAHAHAH AHAHha

:rofl:

Whatcha going to do, kick your little feet???

:rofl:

[bluestateguy]

5. Thank Joe Sestak for making a good Democrat out of Specter

But that may only be temporary. My concern would be that Arlen would go back to his old ways if he gets 6 more years.

[ShortnFiery]

6. Remember when we bailed out the banksters? This is covertly as atrocious and obscene.

This is just another "con job."

Giving away our money to the upper 1% with NO BENEFITS.

That's what MANDATES will prove.

How in the hell can you be falling for this OBVIOUS RUSE?

Because you LIKE President Obama?

Do you honestly TRUST him to do what's right for the average American before his masters in the moneyed upper 1%?

Do you BELIEVE that he will do the right thing?

Yes? Then we deserve every damn thing we get ... we're a nation of gutless, dependent IDIOTS! :(

[tridim]

7. ATROCIOUS! OBSCENE! CON JOB! NO BENEFITS! MANDATES! OBVIOUS RUSE!

LIKE? TRUST? BELIEVE? IDIOTS!

And that, my friends, is textbook FUD.

[rufus dog]

8. I was sold with the all CAPS

:rofl: :rofl: :spank: :nuke:

[movonne]

10. do you have a solution??

[LaydeeBug]

15. Lower the age of eligibility for Medicare to birth, then we operate at 3 - 7 %

allowing for some influx due to, well, the influx. :hi:

But I am in favor of this reform. Holding my nose in favor, but not...not answering the "do you have another solution" meme. There has ALWAYS been that solution, and Obama *could have* maintained that he gave Congress a year to get it together, and the American People are dying at the rate of twelve 9-11's a year.

Oh, and from the beginning, I've oft repeated *this* phrase: We've only ever needed 51 votes, and you know it. I was told I was crazy, but lookey at what they are saying now.

[johnaries]

18. Once again, you have proven that you are "fiery" but still clueless.

:eyes:

Read a book, or something.

[Hekate]

24. comin' up short?

:P

[Clio the Leo]

14. Nope, Joe Biden made a good Democrat out of Specter.

At a $10,000-per-plate fundraiser at the Houston home of former Specter COS Neal Manne, VP Biden exulted in Specter's fence-jumping -- "I have been working on that in earnest for the past four years and double time for the past 100 days and it seems only appropriate that I am at your home on the day that Arlen Specter (inaudible) came back home as a Democrat."

http://www.politico.com/politico44/wbarchive/whiteboard04282009.html

[AlinPA]

17. If he wins in November, I think he will switch back to R. nt

[BlueIdaho]

9. Health care reform will pass - soon

And by next November it will be off the national political radar.

[philly_bob]

12. Specter's a seasoned political observer. I think he's reacting to a real change

in the political climate.

An awkward New York Times headline Sunday said: "Democrats need a rally monkey."

The rally has begun...

[Clio the Leo]

13. WE need to get angry too! I'm channeling my inner pit bull......

.... just give me a minute. I dont often do "pit bull."

[w4rma]

19. This bill will *suck* like NAFTA sucks without a Public Option. Include it! (nt)

[johnaries]

20. Well, we are slowly building support for the PO.

I'm not holding my breath, but it is still a possibility.

But as for the comparison to NAFTA, that has become a pet peeve of mine. There is no comparison.

[w4rma]

22. It's the same. Clinton sold NAFTA telling us he'd fix it later. Obama is doing the same thing on the

health insurance company bailout bill.

[Divine Discontent]

26. exactly! now or obviously it'll NEVER get fixed properly. we SEE how bad it is getting through this

far, and to this point that isn't guaranteeing us much of anything.

[johnaries]

32. No. Absolutely not! NAFTA sucked even in basic concept.

There is no comparison between the 2 bills. Not even remotely.

The HCR bill does a lot of good thing IMMEDIATELY. It also does a lot of good things in the future. It doesn't need to be "fixed", but it can be improved.

[johnaries]

21. I'm still a little leery of Spector. I will admit that when he was a

Repub I thought he was probably the "least objectionable" and he did at least TRY to think for himself, which is very difficult under the oppressive Repub regime.

I really want to trust him, but I still have to wonder if his "conversion" was idealogical or political.

I like what he is saying, but I will still reserve judgment until he has had more opportunity to prove himself.

But, I like what he has to say, here.

[Zoeisright]

25. It's about fucking time they get 'angry'.

I've been 'angry' for decades now.

[calimary]

27. No kidding. I've been seething quietly since the ongoing persecution of Clinton,

and much more noisily during the miserable bush-2 years.