REID HINTS HEALTH CARE BILL MAY NOT PASS THIS YEAR

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday that the Congress may not be able to debate and pass President Obama’s cherished Government-Run Health Care Bill by year’s end. In the timing of things, each House must debate and pass its own version, and then leaders of both Houses and presumably White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel will hammer out final compromise legislation behind closed doors again. The final Bill will then have to be debated and passed by both Houses and, with the holidays fast approaching, Reid thinks they won’t have time to get it all done.

COMMENTS:
Keep your eyes open for an end run. Reid talks out of both sides of his mouth. Besides, Obama is losing patience; he wants his way, and he doesn't care who has to pay the penalty for it.

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. What do you think about yesterday’s elections? (Skip – Santa Cruz, CA)
A. I’m disgusted. Sure, there were only county and local district school board seats up for grabs in Burney, but I went to the polls at noon and they told me that I was only the sixth person to show up all morning to vote. Yet, we don’t hesitate to moan and groan when someone gets elected who does a crappy job. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

Q. What do you think about Warren Buffet’s purchase of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe? (Scott – Bernalillo, NM)
A. I think it’s great…the best news we’ve had in decades. Word has it that he actually thinks we’re going to be able to run all of the nation’s politicians out of the country on the railroad.

Q. Do you really think that there’s a chance a third political party could win major national offices? (Morgan – Laredo, TX)
A. Right now, I would dare say that anyone who has never been in politics before could win elective office running in a party that believes in restoring the power to the people and in ending corruption in Washington. I think such a party could win every single office in the country that it is able to find candidates for.

TODAY’S QUOTE:
“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.” ~ Alexander Woollcott

TODAY’S VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV7Ha3VDbzE&feature=fvhl