The Washington Post reports:
After receiving a pep talk from President Obama, House Democrats cleared a key procedural hurdle Saturday in the debate over expanding the nation's health care system, setting the stage for a daylong debate and an evening vote that could push the legislation across a historic threshold.Hopefully, this is the beginning of the end on the road to high-quality, affordable health care - a fundamental human right, by the way - for all Americans. This is one of the main items that Democrats ran on last year, this is what voters elected them to do. Now, it's time to ignore the "party of no" (aka, the "party of incoherent rage, ranting and raving") and give the voters what they asked for.
The House voted 242 to 192 to approve the rules of the health care debate, a vote that officially permits the chamber to proceed to the substantive merits of the legislation. If all goes smoothly on the House floor, Democrats may be hours away from delivering on Obama's chief domestic policy goal, by approving a 1,990-page bill that would require individuals to buy health coverage and would create an individual insurance market to provide affordable policies for people who do not receive health benefits through their employers.
