This is interesting. Combined with Nancy Pelosi’s increasing irritation with the White House, Reid’s move suggests that there is SERIOUS trouble in Paradise:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday …
He wants to replace it with a cheaper, watered-down version:
Reid stunned a meeting of Senate Democrats by announcing he was scrapping Baucus-Grassley, replacing it with a much cheaper, more narrowly crafted, $15 billion version.
That doesn’t leave enough money for the doctor fix, so the quislings at the AMA will be VERY unhappy. And they won’t be alone:
Reid’s proposal was met with a mixture of confusion and outrage from senators upset about having their pet projects redacted.
Nor will Obama be pleased:
The White House also appeared to be caught off guard. Moments before Reid announced his decision, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs released a statement, saying, ‘The draft bill released today by Sens. Baucus and Grassley includes several of the president’s top priorities for job creation.’
I guess one-party rule isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Even with control over Congress and the White House, these people can’t pass anything except gas. Time to give them the bum’s rush.
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