…we’ll tell you what’s in it when we figure it out.

….you have to wonder how some of the Dems who are either on or near the fence on this issue are going to respond.

What’s most interesting about the poll’s finding is that, only last month, the same polling organization found 46% support, 49% opposition to the House version.

Today, they find only 36% support and 61% opposition to the Senate version.

Although we see it on a regular basis anymore.
Then, *GASP*, those darned “unintended consequences’ crop up and ‘Golly gee, we’ll have to amend the secretly arrived at Bill with yet more secret deals.
Huh, what? Our ‘trust’ rating is lower then a Used Car Salesman??
Ungrateful masses!
Don’t they know how much we care about the ‘little people’???

Ben Nelson? Bought off? Gasp! What a shocker and surprise that is.

Yes, there’s always corruption in government but what’s new is that it’s right out in the open. They don’t even bother to hide it anymore.

If this is true about them not having 60 votes, then how much do you think Snowe & Collins are being offered? If it passes, I bet one, if not both, sell us out.

HHS economists just released an analysis that says the Senate bill will drive costs up $234 bil over 10 years, and that cutting $500 bil from Medicare may be unrealistic. I assume that was the old bill, the pre-Reid-vapor bill. So in the vapor bill they are going to add even more people to Medicare, yet still maintain they will be able to pay for all of it with Medicare cuts.

And that is not even taking into account how much Max Baucus tucked into the bill for his girlfriend.

It will be amazing if they are still able to patch together 60 votes for this steaming pile of a bill. It seems to be decomposing like the mound of manure that it is.

Just called Reids bill a “non starter”.

…through all of these amendments.

According to Talking Points Memo (lib site):

“On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh said that none other than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told him that the Republicans are offering amendments to the health care bill, not to improve the bill, but as a parliamentary maneuver to “flush out” Democratic centrists Ben Nelson and Jim Webb, and to try to peel them away and thus stop the bill.”

I suspected Webb and/or Warner might fold. Warner offered his cost-saving amendments.

I wonder if McConnell is right.

and dump some more hot water on the cold boulder, do my ol Indians Favorite Dance and see if we can’t keep vaporizing the foney fraudulent reidgate -obamagate healthcare.

10 maybe. An understandable mistake, but I love it when he borrows from Bill Clinton and does the hand on heart thing. Ohh, doesn’t the sincerity of both just break your heart?

The Dorgan amendment along drug importation from Canada seems to have shut down the Senate. McCain, Thune, and a few GOP senators are in favor with this. However, it is unclear if all of them are. Thune hinted that the GOP might vote for this amendment as it would likely kill Obamacare as well as embarrass the White House – Big Pharma deal. Reid is desperately trying to get together 60 votes to avoid these amendment killers and shut off debate. However, with Snowe being a solid no, Lieberman, both Nelsons, and Lincoln having cold feet with no political cover it is fun times for the GOP.

It’s Robert Reich versus Howard Dean and perhaps Paul Krugman then, because the latter two favor the Medicare buy-in deal.

The problem with Reich’s theory is that I don’t see how the government is an effective competitor to the private sector. Why can’t they just allow more competition in the private sector??!!

Big dealings going on with Phrma. Everybody’s jockeying for position. Dems are being forced to flip-flop to keep the bill going forward.

I have a new theory about what is really going on.

their party — the pro-lifers and the pro-abortioners and the pro-Phrma and the anti-Phrma sides.

They cannot help it.