I'll Believe It When I See It
From Roll Call:
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health care reform bill...
According to Democratic sources, Reid told Baucus that taxing health benefits and failing to include a strong government-run insurance option of some sort in his bill would cost 10 to 15 Democratic votes; Reid told Baucus it wasn’t worth securing the support of Grassley and at best a few additional Republicans."
If this is true, it will be one of the greatest and most amazing things we have heard in months: that Harry Reid is finally, finally going to do his job, and see to it that Senate Democrats vote for the single most important thing that people gave them a 60 seat majority to accomplish.
Unfortunately, given Harry Reid's record of about three hundred consecutive sellouts to the Republicans, I'm not getting my hopes up before a good bill passes.
I hope that I'm being too cynical here. We'll see.
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health care reform bill...
According to Democratic sources, Reid told Baucus that taxing health benefits and failing to include a strong government-run insurance option of some sort in his bill would cost 10 to 15 Democratic votes; Reid told Baucus it wasn’t worth securing the support of Grassley and at best a few additional Republicans."
If this is true, it will be one of the greatest and most amazing things we have heard in months: that Harry Reid is finally, finally going to do his job, and see to it that Senate Democrats vote for the single most important thing that people gave them a 60 seat majority to accomplish.
Unfortunately, given Harry Reid's record of about three hundred consecutive sellouts to the Republicans, I'm not getting my hopes up before a good bill passes.
I hope that I'm being too cynical here. We'll see.
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