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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Coakley Concedes, Brown wins in Massachusetts! (1/19/2010 7:57:58 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
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ORIGINAL: ThatDamnedPanda
Well, now we'll find out if the democrats really have the balls to go all in and ram it through with reconciliation. Or perhaps the House will agree to the Senate version, but that's probably not too likely. The next few days will be interesting.
Health care is the main event. If they don't do something, Democrats won't have Democrats in November.
In a logical world, governed by logical political leaders, I would completely agree.
But we don't live in that world. A significant but as-yet-indeterminable number of democrats will panic over this, and immediately go into cover-their-ass mode. They will do whatever they feel they need to do to protect their seat this November.
For a significant but as-yet-indeterminable number of them, that will mean distancing themselves from this horrible mess of a health care bill, or at the very least taking a position from which they can claim this fall that they were doing their best to improve it - which will usually involve doing what they can to weaken an already worthless bill, simultaneously making it less likely to pass and ensuring that if it does pass it will be even more worthless than it already is.
The next few days should tell us how many rats will flee the ship. If enough of them jump, this bill is dead. At best, even if it does pass it's now certain to be even worse than it might have been if the conference committees had had at least a fighting chance to move it a little further toward the House's version. That's over now; the best we can do now is pretty much the entire Senate bill, word for word. This is a huge step backward for civilization, any way you look at it.
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