Mon Feb 13 2012
The Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress are pushing Democratic members of the House to pass the Senate health-care overhaul in the next week or two and to trust the Senate to agree to changes in follow-up bills that will make the plan more amenable to House Democrats.
This complicated approach is a parliamentary maneuver intended to deny Senate Republicans the opportunity to kill the bill with a filibuster.
Of the 11 Democratic members of Ohio's congressional delegation, one is opposed and eight say they are undecided about how they'll vote. Among Ohio's nine Republican members of Congress, there is no ambivalence. All nine plan to oppose it.
President Barack Obama is pressing hard for the overhaul because it is his signature issue. He is more than a year into his administration and has been handed setback after setback, despite the fact that the White House, House and Senate are in Democratic hands. The "blame Bush" strategy that Obama has employed to date is now a dead horse, unresponsive to further lashing. In short, Obama is desperate for a win.
Ohio's Democrats must decide whether they were elected to give the American people the best health-care bill possible, or whether they were elected to save a president from a political morass. The answer should be easy: They should vote for the American people. That means saying no to the health-care overhaul plans now before Congress. (Reprinted from The Columbus Dispatch)
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