With more bills like this attached, it will be easier for others to find something to object to and campaign against it in public, explaining to people the deceitfulness of the bill - too many cooks spoil the soup strategy?
Just a wild guess - as I don’t know much about the bill - but is it possible that, tactically, the passage of this bill would make it easier to later filibuster the main Baucus or “joint” bill, i.e. will make it more difficult to pass whatever will come out of Health and Finance committees overall?
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Too risky! We can no longer afford to play games with these socialists...time to get the whole, stinkin’, rotten mess out into the public square to be beat down as the sick socialist monstrosity it is.
What a great victory today!
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091021-713978.html
Under Senate rules, 60 votes are needed to keep the bill from being effectively shelved. All 40 Republicans voted against the motion, along with 13 Democrats...
But moderate Democrats such as Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind., said before the vote that they would vote against it because it did not raise any revenue to offset its cost.
Senate Republicans maligned the bill as an irresponsible approach to solving the physician payment issue.
“The proponents of this measure want to put another quarter of a trillion dollars on the federal credit card,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “We are in dangerous territory.”