Remember the other day, Max Baucus said, a bill with a public option can't pass in the Senate--that there aren't the votes? That's why he worked as hard as he possibly could to kill the (very good) Rockefeller amendement, and the (less good) Schumer amendment both of which involved a public option?
I'm confused. Please help me out here.
Why don't we have 60 votes. I thought we had 60 ahem, so-called Democratic Senators. Who are the ones owned by the insurance industry and planning to vote against the American people and fillibuter the public option? Inquiring minds want to know.
Harry Reid knows who they are, and it's time the American people had this information.
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION DEMANDING HARRY REID COME CLEAN. WHO ARE THEY?
Several Democratic senators said during yesterday's debate that there aren't yet 60 votes to pass a public option in the Senate. We have 60 Senators in the Democratic Caucus. So what's the problem?
A handful of Democrats owned by the insurance industry think they can get away with filibustering President Obama's health care reform simply because it makes the insurance industry compete.
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You can start to figure out the no votes by their pathetic comments. Here are some of the likely candidates.
- Kent Conrad, for example wants you to know that he is "not a devotee of deadlines".
- Perchance Evan Bayh, whose wife $usan sits on the board of Wellpoint? Look at all them corporate health board$ she sits on!
3. Joe Lieberman.
4. Mary Landrieu is another likely no vote.
Reid is under heavy pressure from liberals and labor unions to include the so-called public option in the bill he brings to the floor.
"If it’s not in the bill that goes to the floor, getting 60 votes on an amendment to include the public option is going to be very hard," said a person who has lobbied Reid. "There’s a lot of pressure on him."
"I support a public option, and time will determine what’s in the bill," Reid said on Wednesday.
The New York Times reported over the weekend that Reid has decided that the package merged from bills passed by the HELP and Finance committees would not include a public option so as to make it more attractive to swing votes such as Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
A senior Democratic aide, however, disputed that the issue has been resolved: "He has not made a final decision yet."
5. Put Blanche Lincoln in the No category.
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