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Dealing on Healthcare
McClatchy's David Lightman takes a look at the next step in healthcare reform:
Republicans Monday had new hope that they could influence health care deliberations — influence that's so far eluded them — as the debate moves to the Senate, where the rules and the politics can work to their advantage.
Some Republicans are trying to win Democratic support for more help for small business, different medical malpractice policies and changes in how the health care overhaul would be funded.
....[Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine] was optimistic about the GOP role, saying, "I believe we can put together a bipartisan bill that could cover so many areas where there's agreement on what should be done."
A bipartisan bill? Seriously? Baucus spent, what, three months negotiating with Enzi, Grassley, and Snowe and came away with nothing. So what's the incentive to try again?
My guess is that the Democratic leadership would be delighted to make some concessions to Republicans if they could actually get some votes out of the deal. But it's hard to see where that would come from. If Dems made some of the changes Lightman mentions, exactly which Republicans would be willing to risk the wrath of the party's base and vote for it? Are there even any possibilities aside from the two senators from Maine?
Lucy with the football
Lucy with the football again.
Look, neither Snowe nor Collins will actually vote for anything that Democrats are willing to stomach, and anyway Lieberman isn't going to let this get to a vote under any circumstances. So it's reconciliation or nothing. Stop dithering and get on with it.
Requiring a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate is untenable for the country. The filibuster must go.
I'm in absolute agreement.
I'm in absolute agreement. Out with the filibuster. 51 votes plus Biden and we can get substantially better legislation passed, more quickly.
GOP
WTF ? The idea that anything the senate republicans would support could in any way be good for the middle class is ludicrous on its face.
Meanwhile
Grassley is back on TV, braying like a jackass about "government takeover" of healthcare.
We have to endure several more months of listening to these preening baboons.
Charlie Brown, football, etc.
Only to add the other cliche that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
The Answering-your-own-question-before-you-ask-it prize goes to:
The author, who states:
"Baucus spent, what, three months negotiating with Enzi, Grassley, and Snowe and came away with nothing. So what's the incentive to try again?"
Seriously? Did you think the Democratic leadership actually wants act in the best interests of the electorate? What planet are you from?
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