Sen. McCaskill supports P.O. via Reconciliation, BUT assures you it "won't pass the House"

[t0dd]

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What an elaborate act. Too bad it's all so easy to see through. She's so confident the House won't pass it because there was an agreement long ago the public option would never make it into the final bill.

[stray cat]

1. We will know soon enough if it passes either house

[DJ13]

2. I've never seen a bigger bunch of weasels

The entire lot of them are corrupt cowards.

[karmkay]

13. and they're all ours.

[grantcart]

3. She's not blaming the House she's predicting what the House will do

It may be that the House voted for a Public Option knowing that it wouldn't get the 60 votes.

Her point about the MLR is a valid point. Short of a public option aggressive control of the MLR by the OPM is the next best thing.

[t0dd]

5. The entire thing is a farce. There was a deal cut long ago

to remove the public option.

[Mithreal]

8. Fair enough.

"It may be that the House voted for a Public Option knowing that it wouldn't get the 60 votes."

Would like to see ANY supporting evidence that justifies that, please.

[Demoiselle]

4. I thought the House passed a P.O. in its first bill!

My head's gonna spin right off my neck pretty soon.

[harun]

20. They did.

[demwing]

6. She wont vote for it, even if the House passes it

You can hear it in her weasely tone. It's all just BULLSHIT smoke and mirrors.

They fear nothing, because we threaten nothing.

[SlingBlade]

7. Rahms favorite little spit dripper.

[GreenTea]

9. Senate Dems blaming the House Dems-Yeah well at least the House produced a bill with a public option

All these Dem senators are so full of shit!!

[dhpgetsit]

10. What do we have to do?

Stage general strikes and a massive campaign of civil disobedience?

I always suspected it might come to that.

[Oerdin]

11. "I assure you it won't pass the house."

That's because the White House and the Democratic Leadership in Congress don't want it to pass not because there are not enough votes for it to pass. They've caved in to the lobbyists and they're playing us for fools hoping we're stupid enough to believe them when they claim it was the Republicans who killed the public option. The truth is the Democratic leadership has killed the option to keep the lobbyists happy and they think we're too stupid to know it.

[SlingBlade]

12. Hope they enjoy their little victory in March casue come November

there is going to be pure hell to pay by democrats

[harun]

21. Yep, all the Blue Dogs can go get lobbying jobs, maybe that's what they wanted all along.

[BEZERKO]

14. If McCaskill will not

pledge to support the public option with the other 41 who have said they will, then she needs to go, period

[BEZERKO]

15. She's equivocating, that's all I'm saying

[Ticonderoga]

16. God

These people are sickening.

[AlbertCat]

17. OK then...fine...put it up for a vote and let's see exactly who kills it...

.... so they can be voted out of office as soon as possible. Enough of this covering your ass with predictions of the future.

[julian09]

18. A good many senators are for public option

knowing it won't happen, where were they last summer.
The PO was killed in the senate finance committee, the dems
had a majority in that committee, but Barcus chose to go the
gang of six "three dems and three gop" instead of more dems to represent that full committee.
If they had another Dem in the mix; they wouldn't have had to kiss Sen Snows' ass all summer to try to get her vote,
watering down the HRC bill doing it.
CONRAD AND BARCUS were against PO, they should go.

[SlingBlade]

19. Spit Dripper !