They will get the 60 votes they need to start debate. But I think this is only cover for when they pull the nuclear trigger to end debate. Reid will claim that because they already got 60 votes in the first count they only need 51 to cut off debate, the nuclear option. But the media will not call it that and will cover for the dems, including fox. Only Rush, Sean and Glenn will call it what it is. But in the end we will have government run health care.
That’s not how it works. They need 60 votes for cloture—i.e., to stop debating. The so-called nuclear option refers to reconciliation which needs only 51 votes. But that’s not going to happen. Nobody on the left wants it—it would wreck the package. They want the structure intact even more than they want the public option.
Please stop the panicking.
If the bill was such a sure thing then why was the such a big deal over a lousy vote to debate the bill ?????