Sen. Bob Nelson didn't exactly make my day when he threw in his support for the health care bill. He became the sixtieth Senator in support for this, thereby preventing a filibuster. Although I wonder how he sleeps at night, I'm not really as worried as you'd think. Even if the bill passes, there is still one HUGE hurdle remaining--the merging of the House and Senate bills. The Democratic Senates are already warning the House not to meddle with the compromise reached in the Senate.
I don't think that Nancy Pelosi is going to take too kindly to that. Her version of the bill passed with a public option, whereas that was one of the many provisions stripped out of the Senate version. The discrepencies will undoubetdly cause delay, if not a downright scrapping of the bill. It is true that when it comes to politics, Americans have exceptionally short attention spans. However, the 2010 election is coming up very quickly. If this drags out much further, the Democratic Congressmen will have to contend with the freshness of screwing over the American people, which will still be within voters' attention spans. And believe me when I say that Republicans vying for Democratic incumbents' seats will use that to their advantage. Although conservative pundits are giving us "the sky is falling" spiel, we still have to wait for the fat lady to sing.
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