The Reality Check

It may have been miscalculation on the part of the Democratic leaders, just a plain foolish mistake or a deliberate act prioritizing based on the values of the Democratic party. The Obama Administration's healthcare bill is at a standstill in the House and Senate, partly because of the political capital used up by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leaders on the cap and trade bill on climate change last month. The cap and trade bill squeezed by and passed by a very small margin, indicating that Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership had to probably call in favors from their friend with a little arm twisting. Now that Nancy Pelosi is trying to push President Obama's healthcare bill through before the August recess, the not-so-compliant Democratic representatives are hesitant to pass a bill that they've hardly read.

Yes, it may have been a political miscalculation...or it may have been a deliberate strategy. The Democratic leaders probably knew that these two contraversial bills would have a hard time passing through Congress, even with a Democratic majority, because a majority of Americans are opposed to them. So they had to decide which one they thought was more important and pass through while there was a wealth of political capital. Delibaretly or not, they chose cap and trade and climate change over healthcare.

If it was deliberate, that basically means that Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership cares more for the health of the environment 50 years from now than that of over 40 million uninsured Americans.

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