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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (27978)	3/24/2010 10:14:18 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "That makes no sense at all... who?." Actually it sorta does make sense. (If your main goal is just to force Democrats in the Senate to vote against things that they might be for, or your goal is to maybe get JUST ONE single tiny change in the reconciliation bill so it would be forced to go back to the House for re-approval again, and drag this kicking and screaming process out just a little bit longer --- so you can extract maximum political gain from it.) The GOP Senators are putting forward (literally!) hundreds of amendments to the reconciliation bill this week... many of them dilatory, or trivial, time-wasting, or, yes, as in this example about a "public option in health insurance", actually representing ideas they they are in reality AGAINST.... You seem at this point they don't really care about any of the policies or changes represented in these hundreds of amendments... the goal is just to take up as much time as humanly possible, and to score political points against their opponents by forcing them to take votes that the GOP can run TV ads about in the elections this Fall. It's all flash and show and political process and tricks --- INCLUDING the amendment that the GOP is advancing this week to create a Public Option in health insurance.