Health care vote ominous for moderate Democrats

 
The Oklahoman Editorial
Published: November 6, 2009

U .S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is ready to force moderate Democrats to walk the plank again. Earlier this year it was a tough vote on climate change. Now health care. Pelosi has ordered all hands on deck for a possible vote Saturday.

Like Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay during the Civil War, Madame Speaker took in Tuesday’s Republican landslides in Virginia and New Jersey , lashed herself to the rigging ...


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