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(R) Gabe Evans
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December 22, 2009 06:32 PM UTC
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Try this scenario.
Bennet goes to Harry Reid and tells him to strip the bill of all pork or he will kill it.
Reid does, and the bill passes with GOP votes.
Would that get Bennet elected?
There is not a single Senator on the GOP side of the aisle interested in the slightest in voting for this bill. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins were the only two possible GOP votes, and they’ve made it pretty clear they weren’t going to vote for a bill this year.
What would happen if Bennet had the imagination and courage to send the bill back to the drawing board and it passed in March, April or May?
“Oh, we Republicans just want to go back to the drawing board. Because we had so much to offer the first time around and all…”
Please.
I wonder what the odds are?
Sen. DeMint, on Republican obstruction of health care reform: “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
This isn’t about whose ideas of reform are good or bad, at least not to Republicans. Sens. Snowe and Collins would probably vote for a reform bill if they weren’t being pressured to keep their caucus unified so that they could regain their majority.
Republicans have proposed numerous real reforms and some silly ones over the years, just like the Democrats. I think several would vote for a bill that the Democrats allowed them to amend and debate.
And they’re still voting against it.
Why do Dems perpetuate the lie that the Republicans have anything in the health bill?
Is that they get to put their own bill in place instead of the Democratic bill.
The Democrats listened early on to Republican ideas and had some of them incorporated before the thing even came to the House (or Senate) floor. The Senate listened to Republican Olympia Snowe’s demand (carried to its conclusion by Sen. Lieberman) that there be no public option – a huge concession.
But it wasn’t enough. The Republicans wanted their own bill, not a few ideas included. The GOP had its main proposal rated by the CBO. It sucked. (I believe that wasn’t the official wording used, but it didn’t save as much money and it didn’t help nearly as many people…)
At least for this round, before Christmas.
If the bill comes out of conference with Nelson’s pet project intact and not enough other improvements made, then perhaps I’d agree. For now though, getting the bill into conference is worth the effort.
PS – Nelson’s provision might not survive, as I understand they’ve upped compensation for rural primary care providers generally now.
Would pork for Stupak pass the bill?
Stupak wants one thing: abortion restrictions.
believes in what he’s doing? That can’t be in Washington, can it?
It’s always taken favors & pork to pass legislation like this. It sucks but that’s how politics works. So if we wait a year, you’ll be making the same complaints.
right. 🙂
You need to provide a link to the story you’re quoting. It’s called blogging, welcome.
page.
Every diary is a different entity. You can’t just post something as a diary that was linked on the front page and think “ibid” is going to cut it.
It’s really simple. You don’t even have to hyperlink it in the text. Just post the damn link.
“He’s stuck on the Democrats’ fringe left wing.”
I am not sure the word “fringe” means what you think it does.
Bennet voted with the 60 Senators for cloture. Not with the 40 that voted against. You see, that 60 vote side? That is the big side.