Now that Mr. Scott Brown will soon be Senator Brown.
Last week, President Obama vowed that he would "fight hard" if Mr. Brown were elected to the Senate seat previously occupied by Ted Kennedy. Words like "defiant" (of whom? One must wonder!) and "combative" (again, against whom? It's just the majority of America that does NOT want health care) and "fighting" are being used. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=43D62D3D-18FE-70B2-A8A2DB2551E7FCD1
And House Speaker Pelosi has vowed that a health care bill will be passed, one way or the other. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=55482
One plan is for the Senate to ask House Democrats to sign the Senate bill (with no public--ie, government--option, no ban on tax funds for abortion, no big labor union tax-free exemption for their "Cadillac" insurance plans {uh-oh, the labor unions might have to pay taxes on their health care plans like the rest of us!}, and no way for illegal aliens AKA voters to get government health care).
If the House Democrats sign up for the Senate bill, then the health care reform bill would go straight to the President for signing. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/health/policy/19health.html?hp
Another option being touted is the dreaded "R" word--reconciliation. This is where the Democrats package the health care reform bill into a spending/budget bill and pass it, without the constitutional, legal necessity of sixty votes. Only a simple majority is needed for reconciliation.
Other thoughts from the Democratic camp include postponing Mr. Brown's seating in the Senate until after getting a health care bill passed.
Desperate measures for desperate times, eh??
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