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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (505839)8/18/2009 11:24:53 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1582945
 
If a reform bill reaches the floor, and every Democrat in the chamber agrees that the legislation should get an up-or-down vote, reform with a public option needs 50, not 60, votes.

Were the Ds to try to use reconciliation for this legislation it is almost assured to create a fight they don't want to have.

The Rs will destroy them at the polls, and I would not be surprised if some R politicians would run (and get reelected) on a platform of repealing whatever legislation was passed.

Most of the American people do not want this legislation. While the Ds may be able to force it through on a procedural vote, they are going to pay in a very big way at the polls. And they'll know it when they cast the vote.
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