“Pelosi Says She’ll Get Votes Needed for Health Bill”

” America’s only hope is that someone will throw water on her and she’ll melt.”

This ties in quite well with another article on this site concerning Medicaid and Canadian Healthcare. The article below shows you just how far and at what costs the radical side of the Democratic Party is willing to go in ramming Government Healthcare through. 

This from the New York Times:  By ROBERT PEAR

WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is confident she will be able to get the votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation in the House, even if it threatens the political careers of some members of her party.

In an interview carried Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Ms. Pelosi said she was working on changes to a Senate-passed bill that would make it acceptable to the House.

Ms. Pelosi was asked what she would say to House Democrats who were “in real fear of losing their seats in November if they support you now.”

“Our members, every one of them, wants health care,” Ms. Pelosi said. “They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare. And many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are at work again against this bill.”

“But,” Ms. Pelosi continued, “the American people need it. Why are we here? We’re not here just to self-perpetuate our service in Congress. We’re here to do the job for the American people, to get them results that give them not only health security, but economic security.”

On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Ms. Pelosi was asked about opinion polls showing opposition to the Democrats’ health care bills.

“The point is that we have a responsibility here,” Ms. Pelosi said. “The Republicans have had a field day going out there and misrepresenting what is in the bill, but that’s what they do.”

The House passed a bill to remake the health care system in early November. But on Sunday, Ms. Pelosi said, “There isn’t a bill.”

The speaker said she would have another version, incorporating compromises between the House and the Senate, “in a matter of days.” When the new package is ready, Ms. Pelosi said, she will sell it to the public.

“Our bill, the House and the Senate bill, had some major differences, which we’re hoping now to reconcile,” Ms. Pelosi said. “Then when we have a bill — as I say, you can bake the pie, you can sell the pie, but you have to have a pie to sell. And when we do, we will take it out there.”

Republicans said Ms. Pelosi and President Obama were pursuing a high-risk strategy.

Senator Lamar Alaxander of Tennessee, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said, “It would be a political kamikaze mission for the Democreati Party if they jam this through after the American people have been saying, look, we’re trying to tell you in every way we know how, in elections, in surveys, in town hall meetings, we don’t want this bill.”

Democratic leaders hope to orchestrate passage of health legislation in a three-step process intended to avoid the threat of a filibuster by Senate Republicans. Under this plan, the House would pass the health bill approved in December by the Senate, and both chambers would approve a separate package of changes using a parliamentary device known as budget reconciliation.

But on NBCs “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the House Republican whip, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, said: “I’ll tell you one thing: If Speaker Pelosi rams this bill through the House using a reconciliation process, they will lose their majority in Congress in November.”

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