End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way

[FourScore]

Source: AP

One by one, House Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.

In full campaign mode, his voice rising, the president all but claimed victory, declaring to a cheering audience in Virginia, "We are going to fix health care in America."

With the showdown vote set for Sunday in the House, Obama decided to make one final, personal appeal to rank-and-file Democrats, arranging a Saturday visit to the Capitol. Republicans, unanimous in opposition to the bill, complained anew about its cost and reach...

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...Reps. John Boccieri of Ohio, Scott Murphy of New York and Allen Boyd and Suzanne Kosmas of Florida became the latest Democrats to announce support for the bill after voting against an earlier version that passed, bringing the number of switches in favor of the bill to seven...

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100319/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul

[Cha]

1. Thank you~ KickR nt

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Just say yes.....

[jaysunb]

3. And, from AP, no less.

I'm feeling giddy ! LOL

[girl gone mad]

4. We can only hope that this will be over soon.

It's been a long journey, yet we've wound up going virtually nowhere.

Please, let's get this silliness behind us.

[No Elephants]

7. Oh, we've gone a long way.

Many of us have gone from insisting on single payer to cheering for passage of the deal Obama struck with health insurers, Big PHRMA and Big Health Care as soon as he got into office--maybe even before that.

Had passage come sooner and seemed easier, we would have been furious. But, making it seem like such a cliffhanger, with new headlines every other day for a year, makes passage of the bill we're getting seem like a relief.

[Politicalboi]

5. And this silliness

Just keeps on and on. LOL!

THE TEA PARTY & THE CIRCUS - Final Healthcare Reform Protest

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=1e56vx

"Thanks Fox News for keeping us infromed"

[No Elephants]

6. What a surprise.