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zaj

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Tue Jan-19-10 03:48 AM
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9. They were willing to let it pass under certain circumstances, namely no-public option...

... I don't see how it makes no sense.

They were willing to let it pass as long as there was no public option. They worked out a strategy with Reid/Obama to agree to 60 votes, which would preclude a 1994 like death-by-2000-amendments but would also preclude reconciliation.

And without Joe Lieberman or a replacement Republican, that meant no public option.

So that means they get a healthcare proposal out of the Dems that they can live with, but they can use their opposition to it as their campaign focus, and rally their base (as they have effectively it seems).

It makes perfect sense.

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