Dec
Posted by: Jeffrey Berkowitz
1 CommentsThe American people are tuning in to see which Senate Democrat will be called the next “only holdout” in the fight over the Obama-Reid government-run health care experiment. At the beginning of the week, the media said “Sen. Joe Lieberman holds the 60th vote...” Yet after Harry Reid dropped the public option and Medicare buy-in to secure his vote, the media moved on, declaring that “[Sen. Ben] Nelson is the lone holdout…” As of now, Sen. Nelson says he won’t vote for cloture because of concerns related to abortion and other issues. And because of this, NARAL created an emergency petition to try to get Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to be the 60th vote.
Despite this array of candidates for the next one-and-only holdout, there are several others who no one has seemed to notice haven’t come forward to support Reid’s bill:
Making the situation all the more tenuous is the fact that moderate Democrats like Webb, Lincoln and McCaskill aren’t the only ones standing between Harry Reid and government-run health care. In fact, as Reid moves to placate his right, he is facing growing opposition to his left:
Reid needs 60 votes for cloture, and right now that seems like a whole lot of just-one-more-votes.
1 CommentsPosted by Robert Jenkins on 2009-12-20T20:29:28.203
As a strong and conservative Republican, I question the logic of the total resistance to health care. A foolserrand comesto mind. I speak to high school students nearly every day; they are disgusted by what my party is doing. I can no longer express confidence in our party trying to help America become great again. That is very sad.
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