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Black Caucus Says Public Option Or Nothing For Health Care

Written by News One on September 9, 2009 5:10 pm

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From The Hill.com

Leading members of the Black Caucus are threatening to bring down healthcare reform if it does not include a strong public option.

Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said that President Obama will not be able to muscle through a bill that sidesteps a government-run plan.

“[Obama] can’t get 218 without a public option,” Conyers said on MSNBC last night. “This is simple arithmetic.”

Conyers tallied up the progressive members he expects to join him in opposing a plan with no public option.

“There are 83 Progressive Caucus members, 42 Black Caucus members 25 Hispanic Caucus members, 14 Asian Pacific members, and most of them are public option people,” Conyers said.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) agreed with Conyers’s ominous analysis and warned that House liberals will not settle for the kind of compromise that might be necessary in the Senate.

“You’re asking whether or not we will support some other altnerative to public option, and I want to be very, very clear,” she told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz.

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    Unfortunately, this body, has never and will NEVER carry any real weight or will ever effectively influence policy!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/realnadia4u31/ realnadia4u31

    The BLACK CAUCAUS is correct…enough of this SCRAPS that they be tossing to US CITIZENS.

    When the Republicans had the PRESIDENCY, SENATE, AND HOUSE…..BIPARTISAN WAS A FOREIGN WORD. Now, that the DEMOCRATS has control. Now, BIPARTISAN is the word of the day. President Obama reminds me of a squirrel looking for nuts. Enough of this BIPARTISAN crap………..Mr. President give us PUBLIC OPTIONS or get off the TOLIET.

    Mr. President if you think it will stop here…giving into a BUNCH of WHINNERS……………..THINK AGAIN. It won’t……..we ELECTED YOU to DO A JOB……………the heck with the OLD REPUBS….

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    realnadia4u31, the reason they want bipartisan support is that they know it is a horrible plan and want to be able to blame the Republican when it blows up. They are still blaming Bush for their failings, even thought he had a Democratic Congress.

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