Dem's Clueless, Pelosi Says She Can Pass ObamaCare

For months, polls have shown decreasing support for the ObamaCare bills in Congress. The most recent poll results showed a majority of Americans want Congress to scrap the Senate ObamaCare bill and start over. Scott Brown won in Massachusetts by running as the "41st vote to kill ObamaCare." With all of these warning signs flashing, do Democrats even CARE that they are ignoring the very constituents they claim to serve?

Apparently not. Last night Obama called for Congress to "get it done" and pass the ultra-liberal plan they've been working on for a year. And just before PresBo's speech, Nancy Pelosi claimed she can get the votes to pass the Senate bill as it is IF they have a fixer bill ready to go.
http://healthtopic.nationaljournal.com/2010/01/pelosi-says-votes-are-there-fo.php

Offering Democrats a potential means to revive their top domestic priority, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flatly predicted Wednesday afternoon that she could muster enough votes to pass the Senate version of health care reform if the upper chamber agreed to adjust the bill through the reconciliation process.

Speaking to columnists just hours before President Obama's first State of the Union Address, Pelosi said that if the Senate used the reconciliation process to revise elements of the legislation unacceptable to her members, the House could approve such a two-track approach. "What I'm saying to you is the Senate bill, stand-alone, I don't see any chance of it [passing the House]," she said. "Reconciliation resolving some of the issues: then we can pass this thing."

What would this fixer bill contain?

Pelosi identified several key changes that she said must be made in the Senate bill through the reconciliation process to win support for the overall package in the House. These included eliminating the favored treatment in the expansion of Medicaid that Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., won for his home state during the final stages of the Senate negotiation; providing greater affordability for people who would be required to purchase insurance under the bills' individual mandate; and structuring the new insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, that would be created under the bill. (The House created a national insurance exchange, while the Senate left the exchanges to the states.)

Pelosi seemed most insistent on adjusting the so-called "Cadillac tax" on high-value insurance plans included in the Senate bill. That measure has been a priority of the White House, which views it as a cornerstone of its efforts to control the long-term growth in health care spending. Just before Brown's victory in Massachusetts, the White House reached an agreement with organized labor to narrow the tax's application, which labor leaders argue would hit too many of their members. Pelosi described that agreement as "a good start" in revisiting the tax, but added "there are those who would like to go further than that." Indeed, at another point in the interview, she declared, "The easiest thing is to just get rid of the whole excise tax."

So they'll continue to pursue this, ignoring the American people in their maniacal drive to enact their liberal dreams. To be honest I'm not surprised, but I did have HOPE that they would CHANGE their minds about ignoring what we do and don't want.

But THAT hope and change didn't work out, either.