Dems To Take Advantage of GOP Obstructionism

Americablog has the story

"Already, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has threatened to cancel a week-long October recess if Republicans slow things down in committee and on the Senate floor.

"We won't miss the window," the aide said. "Everyone's cognizant of it.""

I don't know.

He's not going to do any such thing. No sir. Harry Reid doesn't have the backbone to do it.

..then stuff it down their throats with a sly "you had your chance"...

To them, the greatest thing would be for no healtcare plan to pass at all, so that they could blame the Dems for being unable to do anything, while at the same time protecting the status quo.

But, since this outcome is unlikely, plan B is for them to have enough input into the healthcare plan that it becomes a total failure in every respect except for increaing the profit of insurance companies. They want to make sure that it cannot do much to cut costs, that there will be no negotiations for drug prices, no public option, and that the subsidies to the uninsured make it so expensive that it becomes unpopular. This requires some pretence that some of them are negotiating in good faith, even if it is only one or two moderate Repubs.

Then they want to vote against it en masse so that they can blame Dems for an unpopular program.