Remember back in June when I posted a story about Nancy Pelosi and her favorite 'Word'? I thought that was going to be a one-off deal -- I was wrong.
Members of the media went right after Pelosi's theological ideas in asking her: when did 'The Word' become flesh? At the moment of conception or at birth?
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There's bad, there's disastrous and then there's this:
Gallup's 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in 2009 and a percentage point lower than the previous low for Congress, recorded in 2008.
The Gallup poll was conducted July 8-11, shortly before Congress passed a major financial regulatory reform bill, which President Obama signed into law this week.
Underscoring Congress' image problem, half of Americans now say they have "very little" or no confidence in Congress, up from 38% in 2009 -- and the highest for any institution since Gallup first asked this question in 1973. Previous near-50% readings include 48% found for the presidency in 2008, and 49% for the criminal justice system in 1994.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, talking about Health Care Reform, said:
It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest. All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on. You open this door, you go through a whole different path, in terms of access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans.
I wanted to make you aware of an internal memo circulated on Friday by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)–Assistant to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. In the memo, a basic timeline is presented for how the Health Care Bill is expected to proceed this week. It calls for schedules to be cleared on Friday and Saturday anticipating a vote (or perhaps something else) on the floor.
In a phone interview today with National Review Online, Rep. Bart Stupak made these statements.
They’re ignoring me. That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.
Would House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow House Democratic leaders try to cram the Senate version of Obamacare through the House without actually having a recorded vote on the bill?
Not only is the answer yes, they would, they have figured out a way to do it, according to National Journal's Congress Daily:
"During the 111th congress, opponents of Democratic legislative initiatives incorrectly began to refer to the budget reconciliation process as the nuclear option."
We have been talking about "reconciliation" for some time now. And while it has only been rumored that Senate democrats will use this method to push through health care legislation, I think everyone saw this coming.
In yesterday's Health Care Summit, pretty much everyone avoided the 800 pound gorilla in the room–ABORTION. Towards the end House Minority Leader John Boehner did bring up the issue of abortion which President Obama quickly dismissed as talking points and untrue. In her closing statements, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also took the opportunity to go after Boehner's abortion statement claiming that the White House's health care bill does not fund abortion.
My team and I have been "prayer walking" the House office buildings in the morning this week. First thing today it was reported from House Majority Leader Hoyer and Speaker Pelosi that it had been decided to postpone a vote on the current Health Care Bill until after Labor Day. This comes as a specific answer to prayer to slow this process down. I feel as though our prayers have been sand in the gears for what seemed impossible to stop not many days ago.
Bound4LIFE Director Matt Lockett gives four prayer points for Health Care Bill.
