GIFT HORSE

Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized

In gratitude for all those prostitutes senators and congressmen who risked their careers for his legacy, Barack Obama plans to shelve health care until a little bit closer to the 2010 election:

The White House privately anticipates health care talks to slip into February — past President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address — and then plans to make a “very hard pivot” to a new jobs bill, according to senior administration officials.

Obama has been told that disputes over abortion and the tight schedule are highly likely to delay a final deal, a blow to the president, who had hoped to trumpet a health carevictory in his big speech to the nation. But he has also been told that House Democratic leaders seem inclined, at least for now, to largely accept the compromise worked out in the Senate, virtually ensuring he will eventually get a deal.

This is probably posturing, negotiating for bribes or both, since Nancy “Mascot Face” Pelosi should crack the whip and bring them around but lots of House Democrats are claiming that they’re not going to play dead like the trained dogs that they obviously are.

House Democrats insisted Tuesday they have no plans to roll over for the Senate in upcoming negotiations on a health reform bill, even as they acknowledged it would be all but impossible to reinsert a public insurance option or force the so-called millionaire’s tax on the Senate.

Either move would disrupt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s no-margin-for-error 60-vote majority. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team seem to have their sights set on lower-profile – but no-less important differences, like boosting affordability credits in the final bill and starting the insurance exchange a year earlier, which they did in the House.

The closer to November, 2010 this goes, the more the Republicans stand to gain so the Democrats obviously want to get this over with as quickly as possible, even to the point of passing something their base does not like.  This story can still get awfully interesting.

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