Obama Fast Track to Euthanasia

June 10, 2009 (LPAC)—According to senior Congressional sources, the Obama White House is committed to the idea that their Nazi health care "reform" policy must be rammed through Congress during the summer. Today, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi dragged the three key House committee chairs, Charles Rangel (Ways and Means), George Miller (Education and Labor), and Henry Waxman (Energy and Commerce) to the White House, for a face-to-face meeting with the President. The meeting was intended by de facto Speaker of the House Rahm Emanuel, to be the kickoff for a sprint to ram through a "Congressionally-drafted" bill.

The calendar being pushed by the White House is for the House to hold hearings on June 24 on draft legislation, to be completed by then. Either the three committees will hold separate hearings, or joint hearings. The final draft is to be completed before the July 4th recess, and brought out of committee and to the full House for a vote—all before the Congressional summer recess in August. The same schedule is being pushed in the Senate. The idea is to have both bills passed in July, so that staffers can work on reconciliation of the two bills—which are certain to be quite different—during August. The White House wants both Houses to debate the final version and vote it up in September—so the President can have an Oval Office signing ceremony on Oct. 1, 2009!

One senior Congressional staffer heavily involved in the single-payer legislation confirmed the crash calendar, noting, "They have to have this bill passed by Oct. 1, because that is when the flu season begins. And we are in for a potential pandemic. They can't pass their bill in the midst of a medical catastrophe."

Another senior staffer made it clear that the White House delivered an ultimatum from the outset: There will be no talk of any single-payer plan. The Conyers single-payer bill has 76 co-sponsors, and none of them (mostly Democrats) is going to be happy with the stampede the White House is trying to engineer.