Anti-abortion and conservative Dems not on board with Pelosi re: Health Care Reform

[Ardent15]

"WASHINGTON — The future of President Obama’s health care overhaul now rests largely with two blocs of swing Democrats in the House of Representatives — abortion opponents and fiscal conservatives — whose indecision signals the difficulties Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces in securing the votes necessary to pass the bill.

With Republicans unified in their opposition, Democrats are drafting plans to try on their own to pass a bill based on one Mr. Obama unveiled before his bipartisan health forum last week. His measure hews closely to the one passed by the Senate in December, but differs markedly from the one passed by the House.

That leaves Ms. Pelosi in the tough spot of trying to keep wavering members of her caucus on board, while persuading some who voted no to switch their votes to yes — all at a time when Democrats are worried about their prospects for re-election.

Representative Dennis Cardoza, Democrat of California, typifies the speaker’s challenge. The husband of a family practice doctor, he is intimately familiar with the failings of the American health care system. His wife “comes home every night,” he said, “angry and frustrated at insurance companies denying people coverage they have paid for.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/politics/28health.html

[madfloridian]

1. We did not need a majority after all.

We don't even know how to use it.

[Ardent15]

2. We need a PROGRESSIVE majority....

...not a Democratic majority.

[katandmoon]

3. Exactly. If they aren't pro-choice, they re repugs.