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WASHINGTON – Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday abandoned plans for a vote on health care before Congress' August recess, dealing a blow to President Barack Obama's ambitious timetable to revamp the nation's $2.4 trillion system of medical care.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., delivered the official pronouncement, saying, "It's better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through."

His words were a near-echo of Republicans who have criticized what they have called a rush to act on complex legislation that affects every American.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_ ... e_overhaul

This Leftie agrees with the bolded. Unrealistic expectation by Obama, but, nevertheless, the guy's a pusher.

Cap'n Cat wrote:This Leftie agrees with the bolded. Unrealistic expectation by Obama, but, nevertheless, the guy's a pusher.

Agreed that we need a fix (although mine just involves killing a lot of lawyers), but Reid is simply pushing the most politically palatable reason for the delay. His statement can be translated into "If this bill fails then our political capital is washed up, so we need more time to tweak it and crack some Blue Dog heads and we need until September to do that."

Cap'n Cat wrote:This Leftie agrees with the bolded. Unrealistic expectation by Obama, but, nevertheless, the guy's a pusher.

transalation: Ried lost his sack and blinked....

Hopefully somebody realized that the public, us, might actually expect results this time. If so, they will start all over on this issue.

Stupid mu-fukas