Anh Cao Likely To Oppose Health Care Bill After First Supporting It

Wall Street Journal:

If Democrat Martha Coakley loses today's special Senate election in Massachusetts, some White House and Senate aides have determined that getting the House to pass the Senate health care bill unchanged is their last best hope for victory on President Barack Obama's signature issue.

If so, the president is likely to lose the one vestige of bipartisanship on the health care issue. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana, the lone Republican vote for the health care overhaul on either end of the Capitol, will not vote for the Senate bill, Cao spokeswoman Princella Smith said this morning. The language roping federal funds away from abortion services is not sufficient.

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Comments

[PhilipTaylor]

03:24 PM on 01/20/2010

Reconciliation and MAKE IT SIMPLE:

1. Amend Medicare to lower age from 65 to 40 for eligibility and tax those making over $550,000 and charge a payroll fee for membership in Medicare for those under 65 to make up the cost!

2. Raise to 27 the age for children covered under parents plans and set up a low cost catastrophic insurance plan for all young adults age 21 to 40, deducted from payroll, not covered under other plans.

[Cryostatic]

12:05 PM on 01/20/2010

Good on him, for no longer supporting this worthless bill, assuming he doesn't.

[avshanbh]

11:10 AM on 01/20/2010

Cao should be an easy target if DCCC chooses to oust him.

[MacManLB]

08:58 PM on 01/19/2010

If I could I would move to Louisiana just to fight to get him out of office.

[ChicagoSuz]

08:18 PM on 01/19/2010

Aw, c'mon Rep. Cao... be a hero, again! We were sooooooooooo proud of you!

[mediamarv]

05:37 PM on 01/19/2010

So, now he has to go suck Rush's whatchacallit?

[henrypapillon]

11:27 PM on 01/19/2010

Did anybody tell him about the "I'm sorry Rush" website?

[IMAO]

04:50 PM on 01/19/2010

Say whatever he likes now Cao's public life is on the chopping block. He best look for another profession come election time.

[the964kid]

04:30 PM on 01/19/2010

If he does that he'll lose that seat in the next election.

[zbig]

04:13 PM on 01/19/2010

Isn't there one decent Republican senator who'll vote for the health care bill? Lugar? anybody?

[ebanks84]

04:18 PM on 01/19/2010

Republicans, right, wrong, or indifferent, stick together and that's why they are successful in being naysayers. Democrats have never done that and that's why it's so hard for them to make a difference.

[Cryostatic]

12:05 PM on 01/20/2010

Are there still any decent progressives who do?

[pasko]

03:29 PM on 01/19/2010

You mean dems haven't offered him a bribe yet?

[henrypapillon]

11:28 PM on 01/19/2010

No, as you noted, they are Democrats, not Republicans.

[pasko]

11:51 AM on 01/20/2010

Harry Reid switched parties?!?!?

[avshanbh]

11:11 AM on 01/20/2010

He still hasn't been caught with a hooker, another man's wife or in a bathroom gay sex sting....yet.

[teron678]

03:22 PM on 01/19/2010

He votes for it or against it .. he still is going to lose in Nov ......

The only chance he has of winning is if he runs unopposed.

[Sloane7]

03:16 PM on 01/19/2010

I would not care if they take publicly funded abortion out of the health care bill completely. Make the language as strong as they want. I realize abortion is a divisive issue and we already have Roe v. Wade, so abortions when needed are legal. Abortion is not what is driving high health care costs and if it needs to be privately funded to get the bill passed, I would not mind at all. And I'm not just a Dem, I'm a liberal.

[LeFlaneur]

03:13 PM on 01/19/2010

I guess the horse head in his bed did the trick.

[RReitz]

03:17 PM on 01/19/2010

i was thinking a very similar thought.

[Carolyn LeBeauf]

02:52 PM on 01/19/2010

CAO has been brainwashed and threaten by the republicans. You go in with good intensions, but the corruption is tooo overwemling.

[brt929]

02:41 PM on 01/19/2010

If he votes against it- I suspect he will be a single term Congressman.

[AcademyKP03]

02:46 PM on 01/19/2010

No, it means he'll probably get re-elected. The reason why Dems are having a hard time is that the bill they're trying to shove down the American people's throats is bad. Why is that so complicated?

[brt929]

03:02 PM on 01/19/2010

LOL! It could be a perfect bill, but you don't want ANY bill.

It is clear you have no idea what you are talking about- so why don't you go back to your rac ist tea bag friends.

His district want's health care- they aren't interested in the moronic unsupported opinion of a tea bagger.

[postman66]

03:07 PM on 01/19/2010

He's from NOLA, the overwhelming number of his voters are for the bill.

[AirForce Vet]

03:20 PM on 01/19/2010

A one term representative for sure if he votes against this.