As neat and historical as Saturday’s Health Reform vote was – I don’t think it’s going to make it through the Senate either intact, or even more badly mangled.
Why, you ask?
Because Republicans will continue to lie and soak up lobbyist donations, and Democrats lack the backbone to call them liars and prove it. Republicans are opposed to Health Reform, not just because they don’t like poor and working class Americans, but because their political ideology demands that they obstruct progress in any of its many forms.
At least Orrin is honest about something.
Josh Marshall offers a more hopeful prospect for the America’s Affordable Health Choice Act of 2009:
The precise contours of the post-conference legislation remains uncertain in a number of key respects, especially in regards to the public option. But having watched the events leading up to the House vote and the politicking in the senate, I have little doubt that a broadly similar bill will pass the senate, be reconciled with the House bill in a conference report and bill that will be signed by the president in relatively short order.
The reason these sorts of events happen so infrequently is that they are like colossal ships or vast armies, very difficult to build or assemble and get on their way but also extremely difficult to stop or turn once they are under way.
bet yea 50+vp to 52 votes in a reconciliation vote pass atleast the PO and the subsidies. Its not worth using the nuclear option for this bill. Now single payer that would be good reason to go nuclear.