Oliver Willis

Here it is.

Now, pass it.
The health care bill will require $849 billion over 10 years in new spending, to be paid for with cuts to Medicare, while reducing the deficit by $127 billion.

Looks like Harry Reid is getting ready to snatch defeat from the jaws of near-victory.
The Senate Democratic leader indicated Tuesday that lawmakers may not complete health care legislation this year, missing President Barack Obama’s deadline on his signature issue and pushing debate into a congressional election year.
With just eight weeks left, the Senate is running [...]

This is a continued embarrasment. God willing we can get the actual health care bill passed, but the Reid track record does not make me optimistic. Its as if Harry Reid is a simple spectator in the stands rather than – theoretically – a major player in the game.

Baucus to uninsured Americans: suck it up, losers.
After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer Monday to a health care compromise that omits a requirement for businesses to offer coverage to their workers and lacks a government insurance option that President Barack Obama favors, according to numerous officials.
Like bills drafted [...]

Rep. Chris Van Hollen:
‘What concerns me about what’s happened in the Senate Finance Committee is that they’ve had a whole lot of time to work these things out, and just don’t seem to be able to break the impasse,’ Van Hollen said in an interview on the liberal Bill Press Radio Show. ‘It doesn’t seem [...]

That is the number for Sen. Harry Reid’s office. If you were to call it you could ask the majority leader of the United States senate to take the 60 votes in his caucus and make a vote on some health care for the 300 million of us before he goes off for summer vacation.
It [...]

You’ve got to think that every time Harry Reid leaves a meeting with Republicans they laugh hysterically.
“‘The Republicans have asked for more time, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable,’ Reid said at a noon press conference.”
Hitler just wants Austria. That’s all. He’s promised not to do any more than that.

Harry Reid is a joke. A laughable, sick joke that is allowing Americans to have a substandard way of life.
Democratic divisions in Congress stalled President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul Thursday, with Majority Leader Harry Reid now saying that the Senate will not pass a reform bill before the August recess.
Reid told reporters Thursday the [...]

Hey Harry Reid, how about you take some control in the freaking senate, quit letting Max Baucus dick around and get us to a vote on health care reform.
You know, if you weren’t busy doing anything (like voting to increase the spread of guns).