220-215
They couldn’t create or save anymore votes than that?
Can’t the White House just calculate the House vote the way they are calculating job statistics? It would create or save a much bigger mandate for universal health care than actually exists.
Maybe the House Dems could multiply the number of yay votes cast by the number of uninsured Americans dying in the streets of boubonic plague - which Obama tells us is now 73 billion - and damn that’s a lot of votes, either created or saved, supporting universal health care.
Fifty four percent of the country is against, and 39% is strongly against (compared with 23% strongly in favor of) universal health care. Thirty-nine House Democrats are also opposed to what House Dems just forced upon us.
Still, this is what Pelosi’s far left wing of the Democratic party thinks is best for us. Never mind broad opposition. Was there ever a bigger “screw you” delivered from the Congress to the nation they serve?
