Here's what I don't get. I don't get how the US Senate can be bullied into taking action on a measure that the public doesn't want just because Harry Reid wants them to.
They just voted to begin debate on the health care bill - the Senate's version, that is. Make that Harry Reid's version. To come to this point, 60 members of the 100 had to vote to begin debate. Otherwise it would have failed. To me it should have been allowed to fail.
This is not about health care reform or health care insurance reform. It is about the the current bill and the way we are being manipulated.
Harry Reid - following Nancy Peolsi's example - armtwisted, threatened, cajoled, and who knows what else to get his 60 votes.
Blanche Lincoln who ended up being one of the 60 votes said that her vote doesn't necessarily mean that she will support final passage but that she thought the bill should be debated rather than allowed to die. How's that again? If it's not good enough to pass, it's certainly not good enough to waste your time debating it.
Oh, and what about all the talk that it would be next year before they got around to considering it? Now, Reid promises a vote before the end of the year. Can't let it carry over into an election year.
Included in this bill is the provision that people must carry health insurance or be fined. Are we going to do away with freedom of choice because Uncle Harry won't let us have it anymore? It's not his call.
I know 60 Senators who need to be replaced. Not all are up for election next year, but many of htem are.
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