Health Summit: Nancy Pelosi Reminds Obama About His Support for Public Option

[KoKo]

Health Summit: Nancy Pelosi Reminds Obama About His Support for Public Option
By: Scarecrow Thursday February 25, 2010 3:07 pm

Speaker Pelosi used her closing comment at today’s Health Care Reform Summit to remind the President that he once claimed to support the public option.

She then calls out Reps. Boehner and Camp on their misstatments.

Speaker Pelosi:

Mr. President, I harken back to that meeting a year ago. At that time, Senator Grassley questioned you about the public option.

And you said the public option is one way to keep the insurance companies honest and to increase competition. If you have a better way, put it on the table.

Well, I bring that up because we have come such a long way….As a representative of the House of Representatives, I want you to know that we were there that day in support of a public option which would save $120 billion, keep the insurance companies honest, and increase competition.

More at.......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S15BQgELDAQ&feature=player_embedded

[rockymountaindem]

1. She's the only person whose conduct in this whole mishegas I have respected

Everyone else has been pretty spineless. She's H-Core.

[polichick]

2. Yep - amid all the nutless wonders, Nancy's ovaries shine! :)

[onehandle]

3. Nancy is a Liberal Democrat from one of the most Liberal, if not the most Liberal districts of all.

A reminder for DU.

[dmr]

4. Nancy wasn't playing games. She was dead serious! n/t

[ProSense]

5. Here

is her full statement

She was actually demostrating that Democrats met Obama's challenge and Republicans did not.

[Fire1]

6. Thank you, Speaker Pelosi. Needed to be said. n/t

[xchrom]

7. Recommend

[Hieronymus]

8. Pelosi is one of the few Democrats doing the job she was elected to do....

Obama is a huge disappointment. Now he's caved in to Cons on moving the trial to military tribunal.

[Hieronymus]

9. Pelosi announced there will be NO public option. Obama and Congress

have sold out to corporatism.
I changed my voter registration, I'm no longer a Democrat, I'm now independent.

[Shapton]

10. This quote is from February

Pelosi said yesterday that she won't include the public option:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that she would not include a public option in a health care reconciliation package that the House will send to the Senate.

"We're talking about something that is not going to be part of the legislation," Pelosi said, noting "with sadness" that the public insurance option won't be part of legislation. "I'm quite sad that the public option is not in there," she said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/pelosi-public-option_n_496559.html

[salguine]

11. Just let me get this straight...Nancy Pelosi reminds President Obama about his

support for a Public Option, and almost in the same breath herself declares it "off the table"?