You're no doubt seeing that healthcare remains in the news. Think the Dems are going to pass something? I don't. Read this. For the most part, I see distinctly different attitudes between Senators and Representatives.
What does it mean? Well, it means that House Democrats don't want to take the blame for not passing the Senate bill. Instead, they want to make passage contingent upon a Senate reconciliation fix that will never happen. So libs in the House can blame it on the Senate, while libs in the Senate will blame it on the House.
The truth is, I think such a strategy has better odds of passing the Senate than the House. Harry Reid can lose eight or nine Dem Senators and still pass a reconciliation fix, but Nancy Pelosi still needs all 218 votes for anything she presents to her chamber. She only had 220 the first time, and she's lost the one Republican she had, and one Dem supporter has resigned. To get 218, she has to hold on to votes from deep within Blue Dog territory -- there aren't enough liberals to do it alone. And she lost some of that coalition when Scott Brown was elected and Congress learned that the public is determined to vote against liberal healthcare reformers.
I could be wrong, but I really think this is all just posturing.
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