I for the life of me, do not get what our Senate leader is doing: agreeing to work over the weekend when Reid wanted to shut down. It is no wonder DC is disconnected from Main Street.
Where are the fights taking place, we seem to have none; all the while this Economic busting Health Care Bill seems destined to sail through.
Now we have Susan Collins working with another Dem to “Solve” the problems with this Bill. Solve It–we want it Killed–PERIOD! Again, It is no wonder Senator Cornyn is having trouble raising funds at the RNSC. This with a back drop of the likes of Dick Morris saying the Republicans can take back the Senate–How, the Republicans want to crawl in bed with the Dems.
It seems our best hope is for the Dems to defeat themselves since the Republicans refuse to take action to slow this train down so it can be derailed.

that Harry the Horrible already said that they made deals with big pharma?

might have a different agenda….that he’s waiting for the Democrats to implode and he just wants his party to sit on the stands to observe.

He’s telling the public that he and his party are willing to work with the Democrats so that the Democrats cannot blame obstruction on him and his party.

So now the Democrats are stuck…Dems on Dems.

So how long will this hold last…I wonder…

but for the life of me I do not understand this political, procedural nonsense.

Why is it a bad thing that an amendment to the bill sits in no-mans-land holding up progress? Isn’t that what we want? We want the Senate to go on Christmas break without a finished bill….

we want the bill to be deferred to next year. So an hold on an amendment that will hold up the rest of the amendments is good.

But from what I saw, the Democrats managed to get the previous amendments voted on quickly.

I still think that McConnell wants the Democrats to implode with long term damages to their party. He wants the public to see who the Democrats really are.

The fact that this amendment is clogging the whole process up is a good thing, is it not? I saw this and said, “Oh, goodie.” From some of the comments here, though, it seems I may be mistaken. Why isn’t it a good thing for this amendment to force the whole bill to sit in limbo?

And how does this make McConnell’s call to work through the weekend any more, or less, boneheaded than it was already? All delays were good, I thought. A weekend off would have been a two-day delay, regardless. How does this additional delay add to, or take away from, the delay that would have been effected if McConnell hadn’t decided to play hardball at exactly the moment he should have acquiesced to Harry’s request (if that, indeed, is what he should have done)?

…but I’m OK with making an exception here. If I’m the GOP I want the drug reimportation amendment in the bill so that it sticks Big Pharma right in the ass for their having cut a devil’s bargain with Obama. I want them to be made an example of so as to educate business groups of the dangers of laying down with snakes like the Democrats.

Hopefully you kill the bill anyway, but doing it after you’ve pried the drug companies out of Obama’s grip and made them his enemies would be an extra bonus.

I’m thinking McConnell is gambling that he can extract a constituency from the Democrat coalition with this move without putting his overall goal at risk.

the Founding fathers made it this hard to get such destructive power grabbing stuff through the process.

*Hope*fully this whole healthcare monstrosity will die soon… before Christmas would be a nice present for the nation, shortly after is acceptable especially if much thumping of Senators takes place during their *holiday* vacation.

Isn’t that how it usually works?

Hey if they are having a catfight it’s fine by me. The longer this goes on the better.

Bayh will have to vote against Dorgan – Isn’t Eli Lilly the largest non-gov’t employer in Indianapolis? Even Lautenberg is against it. NY and NJ are home to several major drug companies. And IL has Abbott.

But of course the most liberal members of the Senate are all for Dorgan, so this could make a good fight. Keep dragging it out baby!

They are out?
This explains a lot…