I was just reading the ultra-leftwing blog OpenLeft, and apparently 30 Democratic Senators are for Reconciliation, which allows just 51 votes to pass HRC. Since VP Biden can cast the tie breaking vote, that means that 10 Democrats need to be brought on to the GOP side. I don’t know how this can be done. Perhaps Nelson or Lincoln can be persuaded, as well as a few other Democrats who are vulnerable in the general election of 2010. I don’t know. But unless the GOP and Conservatives move quickly, than the dreaded HRC will come back from the dead, like a zombie.
Its worse than that, though. 17 Democrats are for the public option, socialized medicine. Republicans need to find out who they are, and blitz them during the midterm. HRC needs to be defeated. The only way that can happen is if 10 Democrats are brought our way. They have to be, somehow, or we are in serious trouble.
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AP Report: MAObama Care Is Still Alive And Ready For Reconciliation
Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, February 18th at 1:36PM EST (link)As I have been fearing and predicting, the Dems are willing to go over the cliff:
An excerpt from the Associated Press report:
“A senior White House official said Thursday that Democratic negotiators are resolving final differences in House and Senate health bills that passed last year with virtually no Republican help. The White House plans to post the proposals online by Monday morning, three days ahead of the Feb. 25 summit, which GOP leaders are approaching warily.
The comments signal that Obama and Congress’ Democratic leaders still plan to use assertive and sometimes controversial parliamentary powers to enact a far-reaching health care bill if no GOP lawmakers get on board. Republicans and conservative activists have denounced such a strategy, and it’s unclear whether enough House and Senate Democrats would back it. Both parties have used the strategy, known as reconciliation, in the past.
The negotiations, led by Democratic leaders with White House input, are meant to determine what changes must be made to the Senate-passed bill for House Democrats to accept it, the administration official said. The goal is to craft a reconciled measure that Senate Democrats can pass, under rules barring GOP filibusters, unless Republicans offer acceptable changes at next week’s summit.”
See:
http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/politics/whitehouse/APNews/White-House/20100218/U_US-Health-Care-Overhaul?pageid=1
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