The Senate will do much worse than “blow this off”. They will gut the bill, and substitute the language that Senator Landrieu of Louisiana has circulating (which does NONE of the things called for in the Upton bill), and bounce it back to the House, where, famously, it will not be read as re-written, and passed on an overwhelming margin, and The Current Occupant will sign the bill, making it the “law of the land”, but entirely toothless, and leaving the insurance companies and the now uninsured out there twisting in the wind.
And it will be both the insurance companies’ and the Republicans’ fault.
Once again, the snooker factor strikes.
If it must happen it must happen. The Democrats are getting visibly dirtier hands.
Let’s keep our eyes on the larger goal. Health care is the catalyst here, like slavery was the catalyst in the Civil War. It didn’t actually get taken care of for good until late in the conflict.
Landrieu has not standing on this issue. Republicans need to fight to exclude any language offered by her. She is part of the reason we are in this situation.