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4 Dem Senators Pressure Reid to Use Reconciliation for Public Option

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Bennet and Gillibrand are short-timers for sure. both interim appointments that will not be there after November. don't know the other 2, but this looks like smokescreen. if things get hot, no risk to the rest of the Dems. if the rubes aren't paying attention, the they can (will)go the reconciliation route.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-02-17 00:49|| 2010-02-17 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Their "four reasons" make them look like they're from a parallel universe - but not really parallel.

Posted by Bobby 2010-02-17 05:45|| 2010-02-17 05:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Abu,

you may be right that Gillibrand and Bennet are short timers but as of now they are both running hard to be elected

of course the pretense that the public option will save money has been rebutted by none other than the CBO (but libs believe nonetheless)

Posted by lord garth 2010-02-17 05:46|| 2010-02-17 05:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Public Option can save money, since those plans would be subject to HHS approval of procedures etc. that would be covered, with no oversight of HHS rules. It's rationing, in disguise. Rationing may very well be necessary in the end, but I think it should be discussed openly, not enacted blindly.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-17 08:42|| 2010-02-17 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Bennett of Colorado is going to get a LOT of pissed off people visiting his local offices over this one. I'm half tempted to visit with a sign... attached to a baseball bat.

These arrogant bastards just don't get it - they keep cramming this down on us, they will eventually force us to resort to violence.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-02-17 10:13|| 2010-02-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 The letter points to the last CBS News/ New York Times poll that surveyed Americans on the public option, from Dec. 2009, which showed that 59 percent of Americans supported the public option.

The fact that these folks hang their hat on such a bogus poll shows their unbelievable desperation. Whenever these Senators are asked to define a public option they stammer and ramble on about multiple versions with a myriad of characterizations. Because there is no single definition, no one (including the proponents) actually knows what a public option really is. In other words, all this poll proves is that if you ask people if they would like free stuff from the government generally they will respond positively.

Posted by DepotGuy 2010-02-17 10:31|| 2010-02-17 10:31|| Front Page Top

#7 poll that surveyed Americans on the public option, from Dec. 2009,

December is a looooong time ago. I'll bet polls taken since then had significantly smaller positive responses, no matter how carefully the questions were worded... and I'm quite certain there have been polls on the subject since last December -- this is a hot button issue played up in the blogs on both sides. The honourbable senators are cherry-picking.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-17 12:41|| 2010-02-17 12:41|| Front Page Top

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