A White House source tells TPMDC they are “monitoring” today’s Senate debate, but wouldn’t tip off whether President Obama is making last minute phone calls to the holdout Democrats.
Volunteers with the DNC’s Organizing for America are flooding Senate switchboards, and as we noted earlier, Sarah Palin is asking her fans to make calls and help “KILL THE BILL tonite.”
The White House also is pushing back on critics who blast the health care bill as too long.
Communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog late last night: “Since some opponents of reform seem too obsessed with the length of the Senate health insurance reform bill to even bother looking at what’s in it for American families, we thought we’d make it a little easier for them to find some key of provisions they’re working so hard to kill.”
He highlights eight elements of the bill the White House likes the most.
Read Obama’s statement of administration policy on the Senate bill here.
Late Update: The president can’t be watching too closely – Obama is golfing this afternoon.
