Nancy Pelosi is Killing Old People

See? I can use strong language that isn't completely true but isn't completely false too!

Nancy Pelosi has now said that co-ops will not be in any form of a House bill that goes to the President. Last week she said that there would not be any 'trigger' language written in, meaning that a public option would only be enacted if the private insurance firms don't provide cheaper rates etc.

Moderate and conservative Democrats and all Republicans in both the House and Senate have said that either of those options must be in anything that they approve. Barack Obama hasn't exactly said it, but everyone knows that he will sign anything that actually gets put on his desk.

Here's the problem: Nancy Pelosi and liberal Democrats only control about 20 percent of the seats in the House and a couple seats in the Senate. That minority controls all of the leadership of both and has a choke hold on the legislature.

The President is catching flack for being too liberal on healthcare and the Democrats are being accused of quelling filibuster when actually the party is much too fractured for that and the President doesn't have as much of a voice in the argument as everyone assumes. If the President had said during his speech to Congress that the public option was a sliver of the overall pie Nancy Pelosi would have stood up behind him and slapped the back of his head.

Barack Obama doesn't want to raise taxes and he doesn't want to infringe on care and he doesn't want to kill old people: Nancy Pelosi does.