skippy the bush kangaroo: ask and ye shall receive

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

ask and ye shall receive

when we heard that pres. obama had convinced dennis "the menace" kucinich to switch his vote for hcr from 'no' to 'yes,' we opined to ourselves that we wished that obama would have worked that hard on some of the blue dog dems.

now, lo and behold, we don't know if it was obama, or whoever, that worked the magic, but rep james oberstar will vote 'yes.' politico:

minnesota rep. james oberstar, an ardent backer of the house abortion restrictions, will vote for the final package after a further review of the senate's language, giving top democrats a critical endorsement as they lean on their rank-and-file to back the senate bill.

"i wanted to see the language, understand it better, have conversations with sen. nelson," oberstar said wednesday. "on balance, it does what we need to do."

for that reason, he's supporting the final bill. oberstar had been a very vocal critic of the initial house language and agreed to back the legislation only after much stiffer restrictions had been added to it. the chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee said he hasn't had any conversations with michigan rep. bart stupak, the author of the house abortion restrictions, nor was he swayed by the arguments of an outside group.

d-day tells us we need 8 of the 15 undecided to make this thing get thru the next step.

call these people!

posted by skippy at 6:52 PM |