It's interesting though. This was brought to my attention by TheTick900, a partisan for the Democratic party on the ED-P who apparently loves to taunt the conservative reg known as Amora about the health care debate.
Case in point, the OP post by TheTick:
According to CNN, HR 3200's support has now jumped double digits and now people overwhelmingly support the bill:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two out of three Americans
who watched President Barack Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people who tuned into Obama's address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.
Sixty-seven percent of people questioned in the survey say the
support Obama's health care reform proposals that the president outlined in his address, with 29 percent opposed. Those figures are almost identical to a poll conducted immediately after Bill Clinton's health care speech before Congress in September, 1993.Take that, Amora Bun Buns.
Amora bashin' aside, here's my thoughts on the poll results.
Sixty-seven percent of people questioned in the survey say the support
Obama's health care reform proposals that the president outlined in his address,
with 29 percent opposed. Those figures are almost identical to a
poll conducted immediately after Bill Clinton's health care speech before Congress in September, 1993.
Bolded and italicized for emphasis.
Doesn't TheTick realize that it is never wise to count one's chickens before they hatch?
Remember what happened after Clinton's health care speech in '93? Health care didn't pass.
CNN Polling Director Keating Holland agrees with me on that point:
"But the real question is whether those conversions will last. Bill Clinton
got similar numbers after his 1993 address to Congress, but five months later a
majority of the country no longer supported his plan."
Let's get to the main point of this post. All this talk about health care has been going on since the middle of the summer. Why hasn't there been a vote on the damn health care reform bill yet? Is it because the Democratic party wants to get the Republican party on board so they can blame the "Evil, Fearmongering Republicans" if it tanks after passing,or so they can look 'bipartisan' when it does pass?
The Democratic Party has a clear majority in both houses of Congress but yet they still seem to lack the spine and balls to put this bill to a vote. Of course all the barking by the Blue Dog Democrats hasn't helped the courage of the collective Democratic mind. And with the Blue Dogs and the Far Left bickering over that public option, the Democratic Party's doing its old implosion routine again, and all the while its getting sucker-punched by the so-called 'rich white' Republican Party. (And seriously guys on the left, stop generalizing the Republicans. I may be an independent but generalizing your opponent starts getting annoying after the hundredth time).
Will HR 3200 come to a vote in the near future, if at all?
As the Zen Master says, "We'll see."
