Obama Just Ain't Delivering for the Empire

Yesterday, California's Barbara Boxer, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, announced that the committee would not take up the climate-change/cap-and-trade bill until after the summer recess. "We'll do it as soon as we get back" in September, she promised, vowing, forcefully, however that they would stay "until Christmas" to get the job done.

Just this past Tuesday, when her committee began hearings on this genocide bill, Boxer had vowed equally forcefully that she intended to finish work on the bill before the August 7 recess. The word out, however, is, that the Obama crew only have 45 votes lined up for the bill, so the rush to national suicide has been stalled.

Today, the Democratic leadership of the House announced that the scheduled unveiling of the Nazi health care reform bill today would have to be postponed until next week, because opposition within their own ranks required more meetings. And, therefore, committee work on the bill-that-has-yet-to-be would not begin until next week, at the earliest.

The Democratic leadership had been inundated in the last two days with letters from Democratic Congressmen, demanding changes in the bill, from this or that standpoint. The biggest problem, was the letter to Nancy Pelosi from the 40-strong "Blue Dog" caucus, expressing their "strong reservations about the process and direction" of the yet-to-be released bill. A two-hour meeting with the House leadership on Thursday night didn't change their mind, either, so more meetings were scheduled for today. One Blue Dog, Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark), said no House vote should take place until Sept., long past the deadline set by Pelosi, who is still insisting that a bill be passed before the August break.

Those forty votes, alone, would be sufficient to derail the bill, but they aren't the only problem: a pair of junior members of the House garnered 60-plus signatures on a letter siding with prescription-drug makers and President Obama against Rep. Henry Waxman's call to reinstate some price controls on prescriptions; a group of 22 wayward New Democrats expressed their hope that government-sponsored health coverage would piggyback on Medicare's pre-existing network, despite opposition to the idea from caucus leaders; and a mix of 20 rural and Western Democrats made their case for why the bill should reward providers in their states for their "low-cost, high-quality" Medicare delivery,— caused by their lack of poverty and ghettoes.

Not to mention that the three House chairmen charged with writing the health care bill which has yet to produced (Ways and Means's Charlie Rangel, Energy and Commerce's Henry Waxman, and Education and Labor's George Miller) have announced that they are not bound by any secret deals the Obama team might have struck with the health-care "industry" (insurers, pharmaceutical makers and hospitals), because they haven't even been told what they are.