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It appears we have more evidence that Speaker Pelosi will do anything to get health care reform passed.  She has long been a leading advocate of abortion and abortion “rights”, but has started pandering to Catholics to get their support on the Senate health care bill.  Catholic Bishops have come out against the Senate bill, but in this video clip from today, Pelosi is obviously trying to gain the support of Catholics and even refers to the Senate bill as “life affirming legislation.”  Will any Catholics be fooled by this?

Does anyone think Pelosi really cares about St. Joseph or whether or not this legislation is “life affirming”? Is it possible for her to be any more fake or hypocritical?

Despite President Obama’s recent rhetoric about reaching out to Republicans and getting their input on health care reform, a sneaky plan is underway to pass health care without any help from Republicans.  Wendell Primus, the top health care adviser to Nancy Pelosi, believes it can be passed by Easter.  If I’m understanding the complicated and tricky plan correctly, the House would pass the Senate bill, Obama would sign the Senate bill, then the House would pass another bill changing the Senate version.  According to Anna Edney of CongressDaily,

House Speaker Pelosi’s top healthcare adviser today outlined a plan that would allow both chambers to make changes to the Senate healthcare overhaul before the overhaul becomes law.

Wendell Primus said the plan is to have President Obama sign the Senate bill before signing the legislation making the changes, even though Congress will approve them in reverse to satisfy skeptical House members who refuse to pass the Senate bill before changes are made.

“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Wendell Primus, told health policy experts gathered at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by AcademyHealth and Health Affairs.

Some have questioned whether rules would allow Congress to pass changes to a bill that is not yet law. House members have insisted both chambers approve the changes, which likely will go through the reconciliation process to require 51 votes rather than the 60-vote supermajority in the Senate, before they pass they Senate bill.

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Negotiators first must agree on changes.

The Senate parliamentarian still needs to weigh in, he added.

Despite all these complications, Primus said, lawmakers will be “very close to being done” with an overhaul by Easter recess.

The 2000 plus page health care bill does not appear to be dead as most of us had hoped.  I’m not sure if this whole process can be pulled off or even if it is legal, but it does show how desperate Progressives like Pelosi are to have a government takeover of our health care system.

With Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, the only viable option left to Democrats in regards to health care is for the house to pass the Senate version of the bill without making any changes to it.  I thought there was a good chance of this happening, but I may have been wrong.  A day or two ago, Nancy Pelosi seemed very confident that the Congress would pass health care legislation in time for Obama’s State of the Union.  However, today she made an interesting statement about health care,

I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” Pelosi told reporters after a morning meeting with her caucus. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time.

If the House doesn’t pass the Senate version of the bill in it’s entirety, an amended bill would have to be sent back to the Senate for passage.  The Democrats, thanks to Scott Brown and the voters of Massachusetts, no longer have the 60 votes needed to stop a Republican filibuster, so an amended bill would most likely die in the Senate.  This means there is little chance of health care passing.

Is it possible that the 2000 plus page health care bill is finally dead?  After all the angry town hall meetings and protests, after all the polls showing plummeting support for the legislation along with plummeting support for Obama and Congress.. is it really over?  Have enough democrats in the House woken up to the fact that they were destroying their political careers by following the Obama, Pelosi, and Reid agenda?  It appears so, but I am still a little skeptical.  While I am hopeful that this battle is finally won, it’s still a little to early to celebrate.  Never underestimate liberal trickery.

Wouldn’t it be great though if health care was given it’s final blow by the Democrat stronghold of Massachusetts?