HOW SCOTT BROWN SMASHED THE DEMOCRATE MACHINE ? Dem health care talks collapsing
Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tried to put a good face on the obvious chaos Thursday, vowing to press on. Photo: Composite image by POLITICO Health care reform teetered on the brink of collapse Thursday as House and Senate leaders struggled to coalesce around a strategy to rescue the plan, in the face of growing pessimism among lawmakers that the president’s top priority can survive. THIS IS THE MAN Gen. Van Tien Dung WHO led an invasion of CAMBODIA on DECEMBER 25 ,1978. Gen. Van Tien Dung, launched an invasion of Cambodia. Dec. 25, 1978 Invasion of Cambodia. Some 100,000 Vietnamese with 20,000 KUFNS troops, under the direction of Gen. Van Tien Dung, launch an invasion of Cambodia. IT WAS CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese troops. AS THE RESULTS OF VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION BY THE TROOPS OF GENERAL VAN TIEN DUNG THAT INVADED CAMBODIA ON 25 DECEMBER 1978. AS THE RESULTS ? Hà Nội 100 Left to right: Heng Samrin, Chea Sim and Hung Sen (Photo: Sovannara, RFI) IT WAS CONDEMNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS. Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia. The legislative landscape was filled with obstacles: House Democrats won’t pass the Senate bill. Senate Democrats don’t want to start from scratch just to appease the House. And the White House still isn’t telling Congress how to fix the problem. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) both tried to put a good face on the obvious chaos on Thursday, promising to press on. “We have to get a bill passed,” Pelosi told reporters. “We know that.” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said, “No way is it dead, because it’s so important for the country. And we will find a way to pass [it].” But for the first time in the yearlong push, Democratic aides — and even some members — finally acknowledged privately that the fear of failure was real. And Congress recessed for the weekend without an obvious path forward as rank-and-file Democrats started splintering in different directions. Democrats struggled all year to maintain a coalition in support of health care reform without any GOP votes. Republican Scott Brown’s improbable win in Massachusetts on Tuesday now looks like it has the potential to end that almost-impossible balancing act. This post-Massachusetts confusion raises the stakes for President Barack Obama’s first official State of the Union address next week, which some now believe must be a last-ditch effort to get health care finished. On Thursday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a fierce proponent of health reform, said it wasn’t clear how the Senate should press ahead. “Obviously, you cannot just proceed as if nothing happened, because something very significant happened,” Schumer said, referring to Brown’s victory. “There is a strong view in both caucuses that we want to do some good things in health care, and the question is how? How much and how quickly?” Pelosi took one option off the table Thursday when she told reporters that she doesn’t have the votes to pass the Senate bill unless it undergoes major changes. The White House had hoped to avoid a protracted health care fight by getting the House to adopt the Senate bill, despite deep misgivings among House Democrats. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31836.html#ixzz0dMgv638S > Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:59:34 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Scott Brown won Mass' U.S Senate seat by 53% > > if socialist means taking care of our people, not spending spending > billions and billions on the war that we have no business going there in > the first place, then I am socialist. > > > In Camdisc wrote: > > > > Scott Brown won Mass' U.S Senate seat by 53% to 46. > > > > > > > > The Socialist agenda will not win in America. The American people in > > Massachusetts have answered it. > > > > > > Obama health care is death! > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. > This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. > Thank you for your understanding. 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