"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham

Looks the the passage glow Nancy Pelosi, House Democrats and President Obama are self-immersing in is fool's glow.

From the AP...

House health care overhaul faces Senate stone wall

WASHINGTON – The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

Speaking from the Rose Garden about 14 hours after the late Saturday vote, Obama urged senators to be like runners on a relay team and "take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line on behalf of the American people."

The problem is that the Senate won't run with it. The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

If a government plan is part of the deal, "as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," said Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent whose vote Democrats need to overcome GOP filibusters.

"The House bill is dead on arrival in the Senate," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said dismissively.

Democrats did not line up to challenge him. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has yet to schedule floor debate and hinted last week that senators may not be able to finish health care this year.

There's quite a few differences in the bills. The biggie is the so-called "Public Option", the stinky finger that would allow the U.S. Government to compete with private insurance carriers. Such an option is anathema to the American way of doing business, and reeks of European socialism. Of course, BHO and many of the current House occupants are far-left Democrats; they are built of socialist straw; that's the way they are politically wired.  And the 'needy' and 'greedy' who make up their constituents reward their socialist bent with support and votes.

We, as a nation, simply don't have the money to support all of the nation's so-called needy with a Government option. Joe Lieberman knows that, knows that a Public Option will become the largest entitlement program ever introduced, and vows to stop it cold.

“If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not” support the legislation, Lieberman told “Fox News Sunday.”
He can stop it, too. I've always admired Joe Lieberman, for standing up to the far-Left elements of the Democrat party, standing up to Howard Dean and beating his hand-picked leftist challenger to win his seat back in 2006. Even though he caucuses with the Dems, he provides a damper to their tendency to completely fall off the left side of the porch. And they hate him for it.

So, with this massive stinker-Health care bill sitting in the punchbowl just outside the Senate chambers, we will now see attempts to come up with a Senate consensus bill that won't break our Nation, and help good people get the heath care they need...and no more.

We cannot give in to the far Left's desire to drive the U.S.A. to socialism via extortion.

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