Senate GOP backs off; healthcare ‘fixes’ could pass Thursday

[cal04]

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/88989-senate-gop-backs-off-healthcare-fixes-could-pass-thursday

Senate Republicans have backed away from a plan to offer hundreds of amendments to slow the passage of healthcare reform fixes under budget reconciliation.

This means the Senate will finish work on House-demanded changes to healthcare reform law sooner than expected.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had hoped to finish the process by Friday or Saturday but now Thursday afternoon appears a possible end-point.

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Durbin said if Republicans were going to be “more serious” by calling for votes only on substantive healthcare amendments, “it’s a good outcome.”

[goclark]

1. K and R

What caused that change of heart?

[global1]

3. I Think They Are Seeing The New Polls After Passage Where Americans.......

are now more in favor of the law versus being against it. Also I think that they might have gotten wise to the fact that what they were proposing in these amendments to confound the process will come back to haunt them in the form of fixes downline that will be brought up by the Dems and put up for a vote. If they proposed these things and then they were brought up a couple of months downline they'd be put in a position to really have to vote for these fixes - and we all know that they are the party of "NO".

[Journeyman]

4. I wonder if it has been all the negative feedback over the past three days. . .

what with the teabaggers first threatening, then engaging in violence; the Senate childishly refusing to work past 2 in the afternoon; all the foot stamping and pouting by various congresscritters, etc. This has not gone over well with a sizeable majority of the nation.

On edit: I forgot to mention what global1 says above, that the HCR is being very well received by the nation.

[Walk away]

2. Now they need to go out and call off their rabid dogs before...

some one's children get hurt or killed because of what John Boehner has been preaching.

It is almost as if he wants someone to be attacked.

[kestrel91316]

6. "Almost"?? You are far too kind.

[WilliamPitt]

WHITE FLAG

[kestrel91316]

7. I say grab that white flag, tear it up, and beat the crap out of the fuckers.

But that's just me. I have a short fuse with assholes.

[HuckleB]

5. This is good, for the most part.

On the other hand, they knew how bad they'd look if they tried that routine. They're already getting a lot of grief for the 2 PM BS.