Legal Commentary

What Dem Senator Is Going To Filibuster The Public Option?

By Big Tent Democrat

Nothing annoys me more than reading those Very Serious bloggers who buy into premises for no good reason. Here is Kevin Drum (via anti-public option Ezra):

Quick background: Republicans will filibuster any healthcare bill that reaches the floor of the Senate, and it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster. If a healthcare bill includes a public option provision, it's vanishingly unlikely that we can find those 60 votes. But budget reconciliation bills can't be filibustered, so an alternative is to include the public option but then introduce the bill via the reconciliation process, where it needs only 50 votes to pass.

Quick background - Republicans alone can not filibuster anything. So tell me Kevin, who are the Dem senators who are going to join a GOP filibuster of health care reform? Let's stick to the facts please. Even when you are shilling for a Dem capitulation on health care reform.

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).