Posted on 01/17/2010 4:49:58 PM PST by tobyhill
With the Massachusetts special election for United States Senate increasingly unpredictable, Democrats in Washington are contemplating an array of backup plans should a Republican upset on Tuesday deprive the Democrats of the crucial 60th vote that they need to pass far-reaching health care legislation.
And, at least for the moment, the favored fallback would be to try to convince House Democrats to approve the health care bill that the Senate adopted on Christmas Eve, obviating the need for an additional Senate vote.
House Democrats have expressed a number of complaints about the Senate legislation, and Congressional leaders and top White House officials, including President Obama, worked hard all last week to negotiate various compromises.
But on the vast majority of issues, the bills are similar if not identical. And the complaints with the Senate bill may seem minor compared with the prospect of outright defeat on the president’s top domestic initiative, and the thought of Republicans using health care to clobber Democrats in this year’s midterm elections.
The Democrats have other options. They could try to push a revised health care bill through the Senate before the new Massachusetts senator is sworn in. Or they could try to use a procedural tactic known as budget reconciliation that would require only 51 votes.
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that will never happen, though. the house dems hate the senate bill.
http://www.brownforussenate.com/call-from-home-registration
forget this and focus on Brown make it bigger than big......
I guess these guys are really hell bent on going to jail. Would love to see them all in jumpsuits, in court shackled facing a judge for thier sentence. CRIMES AGAINST THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
And with the obvious problem of ObaMao losing control of the Senate this way, the members of the House will use that as cover for blocking the whole damn thing.
Not only that, but a Brown win will put the fear of God into the blue dogs, or at least enough of them (we don’t need many) to kill the effort.
It has to be a long day for Obama when very liberal Salon Magazine reports that Coakley had not warmed up the meager crowd for him.
President Obama speaks at a campaign stop for Democratic senate candidate ...
Salon -
The nominee herself had not yet ignited the crowd when the president appeared.
The unions won’t allow it. No way they’ll pay that tax on their health plans.
Yup. If any Dems were paying attention today - they saw a small rally in Boston for Croak-ley and a big rally for Scott is Wooster.
If Obama tries to keep pushing this nightmare ObamaCare - he is going to get an even bigger backlash than Massachusetts.
It has to be a long day for Obama when very liberal Salon Magazine reports that Coakley had not warmed up the meager crowd for him.
President Obama speaks at a campaign stop for Democratic senate candidate ...
Salon -
The nominee herself had not yet ignited the crowd when the president appeared.
http://www.salon.com/news/obamas_first_year/?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2010/01/17/obama_movement
Yes, Martha, let’s discuss where the anger and recession came from.
Started with democrat congress.
Exacerbated under Democrat congress and Democrat president.
For those in the Martha Coakley campaign: (Rio Linda and Port St. Lucie to everyone else)
tr.v. ex·ac·er·bat·ed, ex·ac·er·bat·ing, ex·ac·er·bates
To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate: a speech that exacerbated racial tensions; a heavy rainfall that exacerbated the flood problems.
I guess that would mean that the Cornhusker Kickback would have to be adopted by the House.
Don’t bet on it. It is the Socialists last stand. A cornered Rat is the most dangerous. They will try.
I don't think that's gonna fly.
TAX BILLS must originate in the House. HCR is primarily bad new public policy. It is more spending than taxing. To the extent that one would consider it a tax bill, it doesn't matter. The bill did originate in the House. The House went first on HCR over Thanksgiving weekend.
It seems the world as DC knows it has collapsed around a central theme: Its all about O all the time, the country and people are only a distant secondary annoyance. In short DC has willingly disconnected itself from the rest of the country and is going it alone.
If they pass it this way, I would predict not a single Dem that votes for it will be re-elected in November.
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