{"id":487,"date":"2009-09-09T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2009-09-09T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:48:23","slug":"obama-to-again-endorse-public-option-in-speech-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/487\/obama-to-again-endorse-public-option-in-speech-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Again Endorse Public Option in Speech Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his speech to a joint session of Congress this evening, President Obama will again endorse the idea of a government-run public health insurance option.\u00a0 This, according to some staffers in Congress and despite the public outrage\u00a0against\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

In doing so, many insiders have hinted that while\u00a0Obama will make\u00a0a soft endorsement of the controversial provision, he is also likely the hedge his bets<\/a>\u00a0to leave open the possibility for further negotiations with Congressional moderates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the other hand continues to insist that a public health insurance option must be part of any final bill in order for it to pass in the House of Representatives.\u00a0 Pelosi continues to get a lot of heat from progressives in her caucus<\/a> (as many as 100 of them), who claim they will vote “No” on any bill that doesn’t include the government-run public option.<\/p>\n

After a heated August recess on the health care issue, the Kabuki Dance that the President performs tonight should be interesting.\u00a0 As Congressman Mike Pence, Chairman of the House Republican Conference, stated this morning, \u201cThe American people have spoken. Tonight we\u2019ll see if Washington is listening.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

We’re not holding our breaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During his speech to a joint session of Congress this evening, President Obama will again endorse the idea of a government-run public health insurance option.\u00a0 This, according to some staffers in Congress and despite the public outrage\u00a0against\u00a0it. In doing so, many insiders have hinted that while\u00a0Obama will make\u00a0a soft endorsement of the controversial provision, he […]<\/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":[12,24,43],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-obama","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}