Pressure to pass the public option through reconciliation continues to build in the Senate.
The list of Democratic Senators who have pledged their support for the public option through reconciliation now stands at 30, including a majority of the Democratic caucus. It also now includes the senate’s #2 Democrat, Dick Durbin.
Whether they mean it or not, Democratic Senators are approaching the point where they must deliver. It’s not clear what the tipping point will be (40? 45? 50?), but with more than half the Senate Democratic caucus on the record supporting the public option through reconciliation, that tipping point is drawing nearer. Thanks to the unflagging efforts of the public option’s supporters, Democratic Senators are running out of places to hide…
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In four videos, Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Keith Olbermann have the subject well covered.
In the first, Rackel Maddow and Tim Kaine discussed the GOP’s desperate distortions of reconciliation.
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In the second, Lawrence O’Donnell and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz discuss the rush to reconciliation.
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In the third, Rachel Maddow reviews the sinister forces against reform.
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In the fourth, Keith Olbermann follows up on his father, life panels and GOP tea buggery.
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If you didn’t see these last night, please take the time to watch them. Do you feel as disgusted by the GOP as I do?
4 Responses to “Health Care Update – 3/2/2010”
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Kind of makes me insanely curious who is going to get stung in November. And whether the sting comes from a shotgun or a scalpel.
Mark, I think that depends upon the stinger’s sourse of information, sanity or Faux Noise.
Will someone please tell me why it is “political kamikaze” for dems to go through with reconciliation? This is what the GOP claims, anyway.
Now, here’s why I really don’t understand this. Let’s say your playing chess with someone who has been kicking your ass really bad lately and you see them just make a really bad move. Do you tell them they just made a bad move or do you let them make it and capitalize on it without saying a word about it?
If I’m a republican, I wouldn’t say a damn word, just let ’em go and screw the pooch and stop talking shit…in fact, just stop talking all together.
Someone help me here, please. Am I just grasping at shit here?
C, the way I see it, whenever a Republican leader opens his mouth, what comes out is a lie. They are saying it’s ‘political kamikaze’, because it is no such thing at all. If they really thought that, they would not have used it so many times themselves.