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Political Partying (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 7: Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) (L), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Rep. John Larson (D-CT) and Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) watch as President Barack Obama gives Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) a kiss after a caucus meeting on Capitol Hill November 7, 2009 in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama spoke with members of...
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Chuck for ... (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Rep James Clyburn (D-SC) was asked today how the votes were coming on the House version of Health Care Reform. He said things were working out well, and when asked if there had been any changes in the situation he responded, "Well, we picked up two votes today." Those two votes would be the result of the Resurgence of the CPoR in the Nov elections. You may note that the Governors of NJ &...
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Moderate in the Middle (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Make or break time. Nancy is twisting arms in the House. Polls are showing the public is against the bill, even CNN…. …It’s coming together,” said House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.), adding that scheduling the vote for Saturday night helped because, “it’s always easier to whip when people want to go home.” President Barack Obama did [...]
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First Read (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
From NBC's Michelle PerryHouse Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) acknowledged that House Dems still need to work out the abortion issue in the healthcare reform bill ahead of Saturday's vote. Clyburn told NBC's Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," that the House bill is in a good place on substance, but some remain "skittish" about the language that goes into the...
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Olbermann Watch (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Olbermann Watch Research Division chuckles every time it hears someone on A-Mess-NBC attacking Fox for being a partisan operation, since we know there are more opposing views aired on any given hour of Hannity or The O'Reilly Factor than you will hear in a month of Edward R Olbermann. Having just finished one such month, here's the proof. We poured through the MSNBC online transcripts and tallied...
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Freedom's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Here is video of Democrat Rep. James Clyburn flatly revealing that "the magic number is 50" in the U.S. Senate to pass ObamaCare. That means, the Senate will use the "Nuclear Option" (Reconciliation Process) to ram the bill through the Senate when the time comes. Up to now, as far as I know, no Democrat has come right out and said it, but now Clyburn has. He even said that on the...
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HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Two stories that spell trouble for those liberal Democrats desperate for socialized medicine. First, from the House : The House Dem leadership has conducted its preliminary whip count and has tallied up less than 200 likely Yes votes in support of a health care reform bill with a robust public option, well short of the 218 needed for passage, according to an internal whip count document I’ve...
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Open Left (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A second fire has started on the public option fight, this time in the House. Greg Sargent is reporting that House Whip James Clyburn has told the Congressional Progressive Caucus that he does not currently have the votes for the "robust" (that is, Medicare +5%, in current lingo) public option. Clyburn told the assembled members at the meeting that the leadership does not have the votes to...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Clyburn said Senate Democrats should move forward even if they don't have 60 votes. WASHINGTON (CNN) - Citing a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Monday that the Senate Majority Leader should use a budgetary maneuver to pass health care reform with a government-run insurance option if Democrats do not have [...]
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Last night on Countdown, James Clyburn said the House was considering a public option trigger, but before you jump out of your chair, the trigger Clyburn was talking about is a trigger with a twist -- and it might actually be a good thing. Unlike the Snowe Trigger, which would trigger the public option itself, Clyburn's trigger (he called it a "hybrid trigger") was a trigger to go from a...
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The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
By GottaLaff Lawrence O'Donnell and Sen. Clyburn are discussing this as I type, on Countdown : Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid closed in on clinching 60 votes for a public health insurance option Friday as two key moderates signaled they wouldn’t stand in his way – clearing a path for Reid to finish work on a bill as early as Tuesday, Democratic officials said. "The public option...
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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
If the public option makes it into healthcare reform legislation, Keith Olbermann has an idea of who might deserve some of the credit. "Democrats in one chamber of Congress, at least, finally catching on to the selling point that Medicare is a public option -- now looking to rebrand the public option as 'Medicare for Everybody,'" he said on Wednesday night's "Countdown" on MSNBC....
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
A public option in health care reform could be more easily sold to the public and to congresspeople if it were rebranded "Medicare for everybody," House Majority Whip James Clyburn says. "I do believe it would be a good way to brand this," the South Carolina Democrat told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Wednesday night. "Whatever this public [...]
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Speaker’s Move Left On Public Option Draws Centrist Complaints House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) decision to tack left in the healthcare debate has prompted complaints from centrists and started a high-stakes vote-counting operation. House Majority Whip James Clyburn’s (D-S.C.) whip team fanned out on the floor this afternoon to see if there were the needed 218 Democratic votes...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Medicare for Everyone sounds great, but I think it does not work right now as a rebranding effort. Why? Because the public option that is even possible now is not Medicare for Everyone. The Hill : Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.” House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government...
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