I hope you are right, but it's best not to underestimate our enemies. Passing Obamacare in the House is a double edged sword for the Dems. It angers a lot of sane voters, but it also encourages the leftist nuts. It's possible that more of the Obama crowd will vote in 2010, especially if it makes it through the senate and the conference committee turns it into something that looks a lot like the house bill, and they get the same idiots to vote for the conference bill. "We have to pass this now -- we have worked so hard...."
I would say the passing of this bill moves the probability of final passage of something from ‘impossible’ to ‘possible’ but still ‘unlikely’. What you say above is true, that is their strategy, too keep things moving, to put members on the spot and ask them what they need to vote ‘yes’.
Aside from Abortion the house and Senate differ drastically on ‘how to pay’ The house makes believe the entire government can be funded by a few rich people, like CA and NY do and here in MD (LOL) . But Many in the Senate depend on the rich to fund their campaigns. There is the public option conflict too.
But best is that now we have this dog of a bill out in the open for republicans to attack for many more months, and democrats to defend, into the election year.
I would say the passing of this bill moves the probability of final passage of something from ‘impossible’ to ‘possible’ but still ‘unlikely’. What you say above is true, that is their strategy, too keep things moving, to put members on the spot and ask them what they need to vote ‘yes’.
Aside from Abortion the house and Senate differ drastically on ‘how to pay’ The house makes believe the entire government can be funded by a few rich people, like CA and NY do and here in MD (LOL) . But Many in the Senate depend on the rich to fund their campaigns. There is the public option conflict too.
But best is that now we have this dog of a bill out in the open for republicans to attack for many more months, and democrats to defend, into the election year.
I would say the passing of this bill moves the probability of final passage of something from ‘impossible’ to ‘possible’ but still ‘unlikely’. What you say above is true, that is their strategy, too keep things moving, to put members on the spot and ask them what they need to vote ‘yes’.
Aside from Abortion the house and Senate differ drastically on ‘how to pay’ The house makes believe the entire government can be funded by a few rich people, like CA and NY do and here in MD (LOL) . But Many in the Senate depend on the rich to fund their campaigns. There is the public option conflict too.
But best is that now we have this dog of a bill out in the open for republicans to attack for many more months, and democrats to defend, into the election year.