It might please the teaparty morons who pull the party strings, but it is just incredibly stupid for Republicans to pick fights that they will almost certainly lose. To anyone who doesn’t belong to the angry core can tell it just makes them bigger losers. Reconciliation passed 220-207.
Yes We Did
America, Fuck Yeah
W00t. The conventional wisdom was that if the Dems did get Health Care Reform through, that would be it. The solid phalanx of No would clamp down even harder. But it’s not looking that way. Sen. Dodd (D-CT) says that post-Health Care a number of his Republican colleagues have had enough. “The health care thing …
Positive Emotions Motivate Action
At Kos, Femlaw (who deserves tons of credit for doing over there what we did here) has captured my feelings about the health care issue about as well as a any blog post can. I think that her diary is a must-read about activism and the psychology of victory vs. defeat, so rather than quote …
Morning Open Thread
Looks like the HCR show will go on. Senate Republicans have successfully identified two minor violations of reconciliation rules in the final piece of the health-care package. The violations will force the Senate to change the reconciliation bill and ship it to the House of Representatives for final passage. Donate.
Like We Said
Reconciliation will finish not with a bang but a whimper. Republicans know that they already lost the fight. They just want the whole process to be over.
Morning Open Thread
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Joe Biden. Heh.