{"id":3709,"date":"2010-02-11T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T15:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3709"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:22:05","slug":"thought-obamacare-was-dead-pelosi-aide-says-think-again%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3709\/thought-obamacare-was-dead-pelosi-aide-says-think-again%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought ObamaCare Was Dead?  Pelosi Aide Says Think Again\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s senior health care advisor said<em> <\/em>this week that Democratic leadership has settled on a procedural strategy to pass ObamaCare.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story was first reported by <em>Congress Daily<\/em> (which can only be accessed with a subscription).\u00a0 Here\u2019s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/nat5986.html\" target=\"_blank\">LifeNews.com<\/a> reported it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate&#8217;s government-run health care bill\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Primus explained that the Senate will use the controversial reconciliation strategy that will have the House approve the Senate bill and both the House and Senate okaying changes to the bill that the Senate will sign off on by preventing Republicans from filibustering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThere&#8217;s a certain skill, there&#8217;s a trick, but I think we&#8217;ll get it done,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The news had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Pelosi-aide-says-health-care-summit-is-part-of-legislative-trick-to-pass-Obamacare-84025262.html#ixzz0f9qBWaB9\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Washington Examiner\u2019s <\/em>Mark Tapscott<\/a>\u00a0pondering, \u201c[W]hy call a health care summit and challenge congressional Republicans to come with their best ideas when the plan is already in place to use legislative trickery to pass Obamacare?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Good question.\u00a0 One that Tapscott himself answered very adequately\u00a0by writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most logical answer would seem to be that the summit is part and parcel of a White House\/congressional Democratic strategy to distract attention from what is about to happen on the Hill. It&#8217;s the classic magician&#8217;s trick of distracting you with the left hand while the right hand does the &#8220;trick.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s senior health care advisor said this week that Democratic leadership has settled on a procedural strategy to pass ObamaCare.\u00a0 The story was first reported by Congress Daily (which can only be accessed with a subscription).\u00a0 Here\u2019s how LifeNews.com reported it: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,36,214],"class_list":["post-3709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-pelosi","tag-reconciliation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3709\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}