| Open Left's Chris Bowers tells us how passing health care reform might work in the weeks to come. Its kind of funny.
Counting votes on health reform in the House (+)
by: Chris Bowers
Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 18:15
The procedural path is now set on health reform:
1. The Senate convinces the House they have the votes to pass a reconciliation "fix" to the Senate health bill
2. The House then passes the Senate health bill
3. President Obama then signs the Senate health bill into law
4. The House then passes a reconciliation bill to fix the Senate health bill
5. The Senate then passes that reconciliation bill
6. President Obama signs reconciliation bill into law in about a month.
Over the past two weeks here at Open Left, we have spent most of our time focusing on step #1, counting votes in the Senate. However, with reconciliation now seeming like a sure thing in the Senate, it is time to start looking at step #2, passing the Senate health bill in the House. Here is the math:
I'm making an Open Bet with Open Left. This process ends with 3 if the House is gullible enough (Or the Charlie Brown US House we should call them...) or stupid enough or corrupt enough to ever trust the president and/or the senate. Keep in mind that there are over 200 bills that the House has already sent to the US Senate so that we could watch them die. And some of these bills, like the healthcare bill and like Cap N Trade, were already compromised before they reached the US Senate.
The gawdawful senate bill is the bill that the White House wants. Its the bill that the lobbyists want. They even said that's what they wanted. If I recall the quote it was "We won everything." And they're right. With the senate bill, they pretty much won everything.
I'll bet ten bucks that this process ends with "3", Chris. Unless yer yella'.... |
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