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And Then There Were 33

by: Dean Barker

Tue Mar 02, 2010 at 19:42:10 PM EST
Congrats to Senators Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, and Bob Casey, who finally joined Jeanne Shaheen and what is now a meaningfully significant majority of Democratic senate colleagues who want the public option passed into law through majority rule vote.

Yes. We. Can.  
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According to (0.00 / 0)
Ezra Klein, "the pieces are falling into place" for health insurance reform.

Today, Sen. Tom Harkin emerged from a meeting with Reid, Baucus, Dodd, Durbin, Schumer and Murray and said that the Senate is onboard with that strategy, and will offer "a convincing gesture" to assure House Democrats that they'll uphold their end of the bargain. Kent Conrad, who will run the reconciliation process, has been loudly defending it, and even Lieberman is professing himself "open" to reconciliation.

Lieberman? Really?

In an added bit of good fortune, Sen. Jim Bunning's decision to highlight the inanity of Republican obstructionism has made it easier for Democrats to explain why they need to turn to reconciliation to assure the up-or-down vote that the White House is saying health-care reform deserves.

Thanks, Jim.

If Democrats didn't think they had the numbers, they wouldn't bring the bill to the floor.

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