This is a very good question. Many will say that Reid won’t even bring it to a vote. Calling it what it is, a tax increase, changes the political paradigm. I believe there may even be pressure to bring it to the floor from the Democrat side, it’s the only way to get this booger off their finger.
I’m not so sure there aren’t other Dem Senators that may read the tea leaves and vote against it this time, now that it’s exposed as a tax, and now that the states cannot be coerced into putting the poor on Medicaid.
Mark Warner comes to mind, and Jim Webb isn’t running again, would he want to vote for this massive tax increase again?
“Senator McCaskill, do you favor repealing the BIGGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY?”