Hastert: Pelosi BLEW IT on health care
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi miscalculated by not forcing a House vote on health care reform prior to the summer recess, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert said today.
“The speaker probably made a strategic mistake by not jamming a (health care) bill through before they went home for break,” said Hastert, in town to campaign for his former colleague, Congressman Todd Tiahrt who is running for the U.S. Senate in Kansas.
“When you have (lawmakers) go back (home) and listen and see what the reactions are and also have an election coming up…I think they get a little cold feet.”
Democrats who make up the conservative Blue Dog coalition, including Kansas’ Dennis Moore, urged Pelosi to slow down consideration of the bill because the magnitude of the issue, and its cost, were so huge.
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9/3/9
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