...Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that by saying that she was short on votes in the House for the easiest way to get a health bill into law, by just having the House approve a Senate-passed version of health reform.
"There isn't a market right now for proceeding with a full bill unless some changes are made," Pelosi told reporters, just after a somewhat contentious Democratic Caucus on the matter.
"You characterize it correctly," she told one reporter about the frustration-laden caucus meeting, "Unease would be a gentle word."
Liberals are refusing to support the Senate-passed health care bill, because of a variety of provisions that they don't care for. Some Democrats don't like the abortion funding restrictions. Many don't like the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the list goes on and on.
It's a maddening situation for Democrats, who seemed to be moving slowly but surely towards a final bill that would have just had enough votes to pass and be signed into law.
But the Bay State loss has done that in...
SOURCE: Jamie Dupree
