Those Two Gals Will Let Health Care Reach A Debate
Those Two Gals Will Let Health Care Reach A Debate
Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu finally called their own bluff and announced at the last minute that they would, controversially, vote to allow the Senate to debate a piece of legislation it has spent most of this year crafting, to help provide affordable medical care to people. What heroes. Their procedural votes for their own party's major bill cost the nation hundreds of millions of dollars in pork handouts. That's how Serious About The Deficits they are.
It sure will be funny when they strip out the public option and Republicans still call this a "government takeover of health care" and Blanche Lincoln still loses and everyone still dies:
"Let me be perfectly clear," Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said on the floor of the Senate. "I am opposed to a new government administered health care plan as a part of comprehensive health insurance reform, and I will not vote in favor of the proposal that has been introduced by Leader Reid as it is written.... I've already alerted the Leader and I'm promising my colleagues that I'm prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long as a government-run public option is included."
Maybe they can get that Cao guy to vote for it again, in the Senate.