Henry Waxman to the Rescue!

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by Pragmaticus
more at link
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/24/757344/-BREAKING:-Henry-Waxman-to-the-Rescue!
AP article

Rep. Henry Waxman has announced that he may sidestep his own committee and force a floor vote on health care reform!

House Dems threaten floor vote to break impasse
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

Dissension within Democratic ranks over President Barack Obama's health care initiative all but paralyzed the House Friday, typifying just how many political land mines are littering the path to enactment.

The Obama White House figured on some pushback from congressional Republicans, but leaders of his own Democratic Party struggled to get things moving. A powerful House committee chairman threatened to force a floor vote to break the impasse within Democratic ranks — a drastic step that could roil the House.

Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said negotiations with fiscally conservative Democrats on his panel cannot continue indefinitely. But a floor vote would put fellow Democrats in an exposed position, having to cast a vote on a $544-billion upper-income tax increase that the Senate is unlikely to embrace to help pay for covering the millions of uninsured Americans.



Pragmaticus
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/24/757344/-BREAKING:-Henry-Waxman-to-the-Rescue
Also today, the President summoned Harry Reid and Max Baucus to the White House. One hopes that he left them in a room with Rahm Emanuel for a good long while.

Call Congressman's Waxman's office at [phone] to thank him for his courageous stand!

Also, don't forget to recommend slinkerwink's health care diary here.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. How long before we're saying, "Thank God it passed!"?

And how long after that until we once again recognize the irony in that statement?

[corpseratemedia]

2. Good for Waxman

the DINOs still live with the 80's notion that "tax and spend" is evil. Time has passed and Waxman's hopefully going to call their bluff.

Waxman: "We're not going to let them empower the Republicans to control the committee,"

Really.. kick the blue dogs parasites out of the Democratic Party - they're not Democrats.

[Cal33]

3. Waxman and Wexler of Florida are two tough Democrats

to be reckoned with. As for Harry Reid, he has always been afraid of the Neo-Conservatives. Apparently he is still afraid of them today.
But he isn't afraid of President Obama of his own party. To show how independent he was when Obama became president, Reid said that he
wasn't going to be Obama's rubber stamp. I wish he had said that to Bush, when Bush was president. But Reid was too scared.

Well, after today's meeting with Obama and Emmanuel, I hope Reid finally learns which are the right people to get tough with!