I like the rhetoric:
A day after formally delaying a vote on a healthcare bill and having to accept a further weakening of a public option to compete with private insurers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) lashed out at the health insurance industry and urged her members to do the same during the August recess.
“They are the villains in this,” Pelosi said of private insurers. “They have been part of the problem in a major way. They are doing everything in their power to stop a public option from happening. And the public has to know that. They can disguise their arguments any way they want, but the fact is that they don’t want the competition.”
But I will be more impressed if Pelosi finds some tangible way to punish the Democrats who are doing the villians’ bidding.
I actually don’t think it is realistic for her to do that as much as I would like it as well. She is fighting several rebellions at once and trying to keep the caucus together to get a bill out of the house and into conference which is where the real work will get done. Judy Woodruff, the Republican shill on the Newshour (don’t get me started) interviewed her tonight and tried to bait her to speak for one faction against the other but she didn’t take the bait. She focused on the immorality of the insurance companies which I think is a good meme to push. Pelosi is tough and strategic and some of those Blue Dogs are going to end up paying big time if they go against her.
She should make them drink a domestic beer with Harry Reid.
The Honduran Congress and the Supreme Court ruled the non-binding poll, unconstitutional and present this as the legal grounds for the coup. They also manufactured a letter of resignation of President Zelaya to try to build their legal backing. The Congress voted almost unanimously (123 of 128 legislators) to elect Deputy and President of the Legislative Congress Roberto Micheletti, from Zelaya’s own Liberal Party the president, and act with questionable legal backing, since they did not respect the procedures established by their own laws. We all need emergency cash at some time or another, but don’t have the time to wait on a bank, and don’t want to get even further on the hook from the parasites in the credit card companies, and that’s where emergency cash loans. A loan that you get to float your budget until the next payday, those kind of emergency cash loans. You can even get an emergency cash loan through an online lender, or through a phone application for a small loan to get you through payday. Lenders typically don’t check credit, don’t require any faxes, and can deposit fast cash into your checking account depending on who you apply for emergency cash loans through.
did a hit-piece on Pelosi this morning. Their take is that most Americans love their insurance companies.
Their disconnect is amazing. Nobody I know would agree with them.