Health Care Votes
The partisan spread in the House would seem to give a clear indication of how Speaker Pelosi’s health care vote will go down—or at least how she’d like it to. Democrats currently hold a 40 seat majority (258-218) over Republicans, which is sizable by historical standards. But as the House winds down its weekend debate of Pelosi’s brick of a bill, the vote won’t mirror the partisan spread. At least 20 conservative Democrats have already vowed to oppose it, and a growing yet unknown number say they’ll do the same. Would Pelosi open a vote on her own bill if it could actually fail?
President Obama visited the Hill early Saturday to offer a pep talk to the Democratic caucus. According to an account of the speech reported by the Washington Post, he told Democrats that they would look back on this bill as their “finest moment in politics,” and warned that even a no vote wouldn’t inoculate them from GOP attacks in next year’s elections.
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