[Billg64]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, aren't all the cloture votes complete. In other words, I think all they need now is 51 votes; so Brown is useless on that count.

Second issue is, if he is so proud of Massachusetts universal health care, I do not trust him to vote against national health care.

Granted he is somewhat better than Coakley; sort of like McCain would have been somewhat better than Obama.

[taildragger]

Maybe, maybe not. If it gets really changed in the house it may have to go the full route again.

[gidget7]

No, as far as I have read and understand they will still need 60 once a bill is combined and gets out of committee. There has been talk that Pelosi may waive the rules yet again and send it right to the floor instead of to committee as the rules require, but the Senate will still need 60 votes.

I realize all you say about RINO’s, but as has been said before, this is the NE, and MA at that. Just to have an “R” replace a Kennedy would send a great message to all in Congress. We take what we can get.