Posted on 02/19/2010 1:37:47 PM PST by C19fan
Greg Sargent reports that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said that he would support holding a reconciliation vote on a public option.
Said Reid spokesman Rodell Mollineau in a written statement (emphasis Sargent's):
Senator Reid has always and continues to support the public option as a way to drive down costs and create competition. That is why he included the measure in his original health care proposal.
If a decision is made to use reconciliation to advance health care, Senator Reid will work with the White House, the House, and members of his caucus in an effort to craft a public option that can overcome procedural obstacles and secure enough votes.
But Sargent also relays the doubts of Senate leadership aides, who say they aren't sure if the Senate parliamentarian will allow the passage of a public option via reconciliation.
Well, Lautenberg is on the way out, hopefully Reid joins him.
So excited he posted it twice!
I knew last night, after watching Hannity, they were going to do this to try and shove this ObamaCare down Americans’ throats.
If they succeed, what political price do you think they’ll have to pay?
Anything can be overturned by the 2nd Amendment.
Hi.
Of course he does...
I GIVE UP.
It says seven replies but this is the first one. Weird.
heh heh heh.
Reid is digging himself a deep electoral grave.
Boy he must REALLY be looking forward to retirement in November.
I can’t imagine the parlementarian would accept a the language that would be needed to construct a public insurance program as a budget item. If there already was a plan, they could probably get a change in eligibility through if they argued opening up the plan would bring in more revenue than it would cost.
But I also don’t think there are 50 votes for it in the Senate. They couldn’t get the public option through the committee where they have a majority vote rule and the democrats had the majority.
I think the real purpose of floating this is that every day there is another story about something they will pass by reconciliation — which means every day America is told that things pass by reconciliation.
They are desentizing the people and the media, so that when they actually try to pull the trigger, it won’t be like the “nuclear option”, it will seem like an ordinary occurance.
And if they can have the parlamentarian reject a few things, it will make it look even more “normal”, showing that the things that AREN’T rejected MUST be OK since the parlementarian rejected some things.
Can the Revolution be far behind???
Groundhog day on FR?
Boy he must REALLY be looking forward to retirement in November.
BTTT
Can we mere peasants tar and feather Harry Reid and ride him out of town on a rail?
Kamikaze Reid aims for the deck of the U.S.S. United States!
more insanity to appease the far Left
If the RATs do this, it’s a ‘Declaration of War’ on democratic rules by which other Congresses have enacted legislation.
Let the lawsuits begin to stop this monstrosity until it can be repealed.
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