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Chickenshit cowards. That’s what they are. Bought and paid for trash.
The Senate Blue Dogshits intentionally killed the meaning of the Health Reform movement. It became no longer about the people of this nation, but instead, they made it about appeasing a handful of Anti-American vermin serving the best interests of their corporate masters.
They will pay dearly for their treachery at the polls.

This is certainly not the end. But it is near.
We’ll have the usual reports by the usual defeatist idiots, both MSM and Blogger alike, proclaiming “The Public Option Is Dead!” It’s not dead yet, but the filth have injured her severely.

The Next Steps:

Reid will seek “cloture” (end of debate) and that takes 60 votes if Scum filibuster. That’s the reason for the shameless capitulation.
If Reid gets the 60 votes to end debate the “final passage” vote will ensue. A simple majority of 51 votes is all that’s needed for passage.

Then comes reconciliation. The House and Senate will appoint a “conference committee” consisting of members from each chamber. That committee will meet to reconcile the House and Senate Bills into one piece of legislation.
(This is where we look for House Leadership to carefully choose committee members.)
60 votes will be needed just to form the committee as Repigs may attempt to block is inception.
If differences are reconciled the committee produces a “Conference Report", the final version of the legislation. It is debated again in both chambers but no amendments are permitted.

Then, it’s back to the pathetic Senate for 60 more votes. If passed, It goes to Obama for ink.

There’s still a ways to go. If House and Senate Progressives stand and fight there is still a chance. Would someone please find a backbone somewhere on the Hill?
The fact that Procedural Reconciliation has not been used to pass the PO is disgraceful. Reid and the Senate Democrats are about to throw it all away.

Only the weakest of the weak quit the fight before it’s done. The House Progressive Caucus is upset.
One of the few American politicians with any real guts, Progressive Caucus leader Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, had this to say about the Senate’s ineptitude…

Grijalva Calls Emerging Senate Compromise Inadequate For Working Families, Questions Lack of Public Option
Tuesday December 08, 2009

Washington, DC – Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today declared the widely reported compromises in the emerging Senate health care bill “troubling” and “not even reminiscent of a public option.”

Senate and White House leaders, he said, “have already compromised far too much. At some point in this process, the question became not what was the best policy for the American people, but what could be done to appease a recalcitrant handful who have negotiated in bad faith. We need strong leadership so close to the finish line, not efforts to water down a bill to the breaking point in a misguided attempt to win votes that were never there.”

Grijalva said reports that the Senate is now moving toward the creation of a non-profit board to provide insurance, instead of an authentic public option, should “worry the millions of Americans who are counting on this bill to create affordable insurance and help them enjoy a fair marketplace.” He emphasized that the House has already rejected such an approach, which essentially mirrors the health co-ops dismissed by most analysts as ineffective.

“A non-public option without government support will not bring down prices, expand coverage or provide competition for private companies,” Grijalva said. “Voters will instantly recognize it as a whitewash of the problem we have spent the better part of this year trying to fix. They would be right to criticize any plan that fails to address their concerns, and they will be doubly right to reject this one.”

Building a national health co-op from scratch would be an “unruly and excessively time-consuming process,” Grijalva said. Such a plan “would forfeit the economic advantages – such as building on Medicare’s provider network – that would make a public insurance program competitive.”

Grijalva added that modeling a plan on the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program that exclusively offers private insurance plans, as the Senate is reportedly considering, is not equivalent to a public option. Similarly, lowering the age of Medicare eligibility by five or 10 years “does not create enough private sector competition, which we desperately need to benefit working families,” he said.

“We need a public option, period,” Grijalva said. “I cannot support a system that forces Americans to buy private insurance and then allows those companies to collect government subsidies without competition. Our final health care bill should be based on policy outcomes and the needs of consumers, and the direction the Senate is taking does not give me confidence.”

No matter what the outcome, Liberals. We must pledge to make the following scumbags pay with their careers for stabbing their country and people in the back….

Joe Lieberman - I - Connecticut
Max Baucus - D - Nebraska
Tom Carper - D - Delaware
Kent Conrad - D - North Dakota
Mary Landrieu - D - Louisiana
Blanche Lincoln - D - Arkansas
Bill Nelson - D - Florida

The House Version of the Public Option would be in the Senate version now were it not for these few traitors. Lieberman especially.
We must never let up on them. Even once they’re un-elected.