Reid Backs Off Health Care Deadline

[a kennedy]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that he is backing off deadlines as a way to get results from recalcitrant health care negotiators.

"I had a meeting last Monday with a number of consultants. They all said, 'Get off this exact date. The American people don't care about exact dates. All they want is something to get done.' So I listened to them," Reid told a handful of reporters after a press briefing.

Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), however, wants to keep the pressure on. "I didn't hear that," he said, when asked if Reid was backing off a Sept. 15th deadline for the Finance Committee to come to a bipartisan deal.

What'll happen if there's no deal by mid-September?

"We'll wait and see what happens," said Durbin.

article here: <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/reid-backs-off-health-car_n_253076.html>

[WI_DEM]

1. Why do Senate Dems want such a weak leader as Reid. The guy before him wasn't too strong

either. Why not put somebody with some guts in the job?

[liberal N proud]

2. All the negotiators want is to delay until Senate is in recess

Then they can teabag them just as they are congressmen.

[Birthmark]

3. Shouldn't there just be a pinned thread...

...entitled "Reid Backs Off?" Then we could just update it daily with his latest list of cave-ins.

[Oregone]

4. Reid backs off on "consultants" advice.

Hm. This guy is pure comedic material


In a black comedy I guess