[IamConservative]

I have to think this was a test vote for Healthcare Reform. Reid signaling Obama about the depth of the kimchee.

[wayoverontheright]

It's not the fact that the 13 Dems rejected this bill that's important, it's the REASON they are giving for rejecting it-almost all stating something about the cost and the further damage to the deficit.

These reasons will also apply to Cap and Trade. Remember the town halls and the tea parties? Those who attended clearly had fiscal reasons for their opposition, and it looks here like the message is getting through. The town halls and tea parties also gave backbone to the 'pubbies, not one voted with Reid on this.

[JPG]

Looks like Dingy is the one who got ‘vaporized.’

[GeronL]

Gawd I hope the margin holds.

[ohiobuckeye1997]

On the surface it looks good, but I am also very wary that it may be a ROPE-A-DOPE maneuver that is intended to get the resistance to let up a little so they can come back with new energy on this....so keep calling, emailing, faxing the dirt bags in DC!

[PGR88]

Was Reid REALLY so stupid enough to believe the AMA, which is just another lobbying organization, could “deliver” him so many Republican votes, on one of the most divisive issues of the past decades, on which the Republicans have been united for the last 9 months?

Something doesn’t smell right here.