So, now they’ll have that vote:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has secured the vital 60th vote he needs to advance healthcare reform legislation with the announcement by Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) that she will vote with her party Saturday evening.
“I have concluded that it is more important to begin this debate rather than just simply drop the issue and walk away,” Lincoln said on the Senate floor. “I’m not afraid of that debate.”
Indeed, no one is afraid of that debate – the trouble is that the debate doesn’t matter. To Reid and his like, the only key is to get the thing passed, in one form or another. Then they will let the conference committee put together the necessary, please-the-left-so-I-can-raise-$25 million screw America bill to be passed by 50 Senators plus Biden in the final vote (this way dear Blanche can vote against the final product and go back home and try to sucker Arkansans in to believing she isn’t responsible for the dog of a bill which finally emerges).
They think they have us cornered – that there’s nothing we can do. Oh, sure, they expect to lose some seats in the House and Senate next year, but they expect to emerge still in the Congressional majority. Reid thinks his $25 million will buy him re-election in Nevada; Pelosi figures the 25-30 she’ll lose are mostly blue dogs with their tiresome pro-life votes; Obama believes he can finesse things by 2012 to make it seem like he’s done a good job…
Well, they are wrong, and we’re going to prove it, next year.
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