Three more happenings on the Hill this week involve the Senate defeating an amendment that would require illegal aliens from having to show legal ID to get their “free” healthcare, the House saying no to the healthcare co-op idea and going full tilt for the so-called public option, and Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) tipping in Obama’s bi-partisan sentiment by saying that no Republicans are allowed to have a say in the final debate.
First up was the Senate’s defeat of the illegal ID requirement. Senator Grassley offered an amendment that would require immigrants to supply full ides to prove that they could legally access government healthcare.
On party lines the Grassley’s amendment was defeated 10 to 13.
Democrats claimed that the amendment was “a solution without a problem.” But Republicans contend that Democrats simply don’t want to prevent the possibility of illegals being turned away from “free” government healthcare services.
Next up was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s going “all in” on the public option. She want to foster the defeat of any talk of the “co-op” policy. Pelosi said that the states might be able to create healthcare co-ops, but she wouldn’t allow that idea to replace the public option in her bill.
It’s either a government sponsored “insurance” policy or she stands against it.
And finally, we get another fine example of the loving, more civil, more serious Democrats that really, really care about bi-partisanship. Following the more civil, ore caring example of his president, Senator Tom Harkin said that there is no place at the table in the Senate for Republicans in the healthcare debate. Apparently Harkin thinks Republicans should just shut up and let Obama tell them all what to think.
Aren’t you glad that Obama is so interested in “reaching across the aisle”?
Me too.
And there’s your update on the doings on the Hill this week thus far.
Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
