Pelosi shoots down public option 'trigger'

[ProSense]

Pelosi shoots down public option 'trigger'

By Mike Soraghan

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday shot down a healthcare compromise that has been viewed as the best chance for getting a bipartisan bill through the Senate.

Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected the idea of a “trigger” for a public option. That means that the government-run healthcare plan would be a fallback option, enacted only if other reforms didn’t make healthcare more accessible.

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who is being courted by the Obama administration as their best hope for getting a Republican to sign on to President Barack Obama’s healthcare initiative, supports a trigger. But Pelosi does not.

“I don't even want to talk about a trigger,” Pelosi said at her weekly press conference. She said the “attitude” of her fellow Democrats is that “a trigger is an excuse for not doing anything.”

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[polichick]

1. She's right - "a trigger is an excuse for not doing anything"...

It's time for Obama and the WH to stop begging Republicans for a bipartisan bill and pass a good bill.

[DevonRex]

2. Posts like that really hurt your credibility. nt

[jenmito]

3. +1

[DevonRex]

12. Thank you Jen!

:hi:

[jenmito]

18. No problem! You're right!

:hi:

[polichick]

6. LOL - as if I'd worry about impressing the fan club...

What I posted is the truth ~ sorry you can't take it.

[DevonRex]

9. No, all you did was repeat MSM bullshit. For a reason. Just like the RWers do.

What's your game here? Don't answer that. I really don't give a shit.

[Cha]

10. "The fan club"..that's all you have? Calling names? Boo.

[DevonRex]

14. Isn't that a riot? Poor things got nothin'. nt

[ProSense]

15. "What I posted is the truth"

"No it isn't.

[DevonRex]

17. Oh, she'll ignore those because they don't help her in her mission.

:hi:

[jenmito]

19. Now THAT'S the truth!

:hi:

[polichick]

20. I said...

"It's time for Obama and the WH to stop begging Republicans for a bipartisan bill and pass a good bill" ~ and that's the truth.

The WH has been trying to work with (begging imo) Snowe for months just to be able to say it's a bipartisan bill.

[ProSense]

22. You are ignoring reality. n/t

[polichick]

23. LOL - are you claiming that the WH hasn't been working with Snowe...

...in hopes of a "bipartisan" bill?

[ProSense]

24. You: "It's time for Obama and the WH to stop..." Now read the information provided

and stop making statements that counter reality.

[polichick]

25. I read it before asking that simple question you refuse to answer. nt

[grantcart]

21. lol

[Cha]

7. Some posters like to throw red meat to the

Fail Pushers.

[DevonRex]

11. Yep. Every day. Over and over. It's quite laughable. And they're a little

sad.

[stray cat]

5. not enough democrats either unless you can do something Obama can't

if so - do it!

[polichick]

8. Obama hasn't even begun to pressure the blue dogs - it's time. nt

[Cha]

4. Hope the ad exposing Olympia Snowe that's

running in Maine is getting her some calls and letters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/olympia-snowe-targeted-by_n_293452.html

And, the White House knows what they're doing by trying to get Repubs on board. They are good at this..much better than political armchair occupants.

[Triana]

13. GOOD. Bipartisanship is DEAD. FORGET it! Long Live reconciliation and a strong public option

NOW.

[bluestateguy]

16. Do triggers ever get pullled?

and who does the pulling? I could live with this if the trigger period was in like 1-2 years, but I don't really want to entrust a potentially future president Huckabee or Romney or Jindal way down the road to "decide" if a trigger were pulled.