[Anti-Bubba182]

Getting the Bill to the floor debate is a big deal. The usual way to kill a bill is to see it never gets to the floor. I am certain most of the Democrat "opposition" was a sham to extract more set asides and get political cover. We are in deep trouble here.

Reid on Verge of Clearing Senate Health-Bill Hurdle

"...The Congressional Research Service released an analysis that found only one instance between 1999 and 2008 when Senate legislation failed after the chamber voted to end a so-called filibuster on a motion to debate a bill. That was a measure designed to protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits that was rejected in 2004.

“When the Senate invoked cloture on a measure itself, it almost always proceeded to a final vote on the measure and passed it,” CRS analysts wrote to Senator Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who requested the study....."

[usconservative]

I am certain most of the Democrat "opposition" was a sham to extract more set asides and get political cover.

That's precisely what it was, just ask Mary Landrieu.

Here's the thing: This is their last payoff. Come November 2010, these lying, thieving sons-a-bitches are all gonna get fired.