Comments on: Health Care and MA Senate Race

By: ignorantapathy

ignorantapathy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:53:57 +0000

Steve, your analysis is too, uh, analytical. A Brown win will bury the current healthcare bill not due to same congressional calculus but due to something more primordial (and yes, I’m referring to Nancy Pelosi’s age). Even now, I suspect Pelosi is glazing lustily at Brown’s Cosmo centerfold, methodically mapping out a way to trap Brown in her office for some one-on-one “reconciliation.” If Brown is the man I suspect he is, he will take one for the team. The next day, Pelosi will inexplicably drop the healthcare bill with a whimsical look on her face (no one will be tell the difference).

An unlikely scenerio, you say. No more than a Republican win in the Mass special election.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:47:04 +0000

I knew there was a reason why I kept that poll open. The Dingy One screwed up the politics because he had everything the Left wanted except abortion in the version that actually made it out of the House. However, in a desperate bid to appease the NAGs, he decided to push an abortion-heavy version through the Senate (hijacking a bill in the process) instead of working with what came out of the House.

Now, we’re at the point of where either Stupak and company swallow abortion and nothing else, or the House goes “reconciliation” and brings back HR3200. In fact, I still maintain that if they have the votes to swallow the Senate abortion whole, they will go the “reconciliation” route because there is 51 votes for that in the Senate.