Here it comes!

In the wake of last week's Senate upset in Massachusetts, Democrats seemed to be backpedaling away from ObamaCare, but yesterday came word from Nancy Pelosi and other leading House Dems that they plan to keep trying.  Their plan is to try and push the Senate's version of health care "reform" through the House (with some changes), and then get the Senate to pass the bill in that chamber with a simple majority vote by using "reconciliation" rules to avoid needing 60 votes to break a Republican filibuster.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said last week she does not
have the votes to pass the Senate bill without changes. Democratic
congressional aides, speaking on condition of anonymity because the
issue is in flux, said the latest strategy involves using a special
budget procedure to revise the Senate bill.

The procedural
route _ known as reconciliation _ would allow a majority of 51 senators
to amend their bill to address some of the major substantive concerns
raised by the House. That would circumvent the need for a 60-vote
majority to hold off Republican delaying tactics.

In other words, they're going to try and "get around" the rules of the Senate, now that Scott Brown's there.

So why the sudden push?

Among those arguing for a quick strike on health care is David
Plouffe, the political adviser who helped elect Obama president and has
just been summoned back by the White House to help coordinate this
year's elections.

"I know that the short-term politics are
bad," Plouffe argued in a Washington Post op-ed. "But politically
speaking, if we do not pass it, the GOP will continue attacking the
plan as if we did anyway, and voters will have no ability to measure
its upside." Among the immediate benefits: allowing dependent children
to stay on their parents' coverage into their mid-twenties, and
assistance for seniors in the Medicare prescription coverage gap.

In other words, unless we pass this bill that the majority of the American people don't want, come election time they'll have no way to know how good it really would have been, and then not punish Democrats at the ballot box.

Brilliant!

Of course it might now seem so brilliant to the considerable group of Democrats from marginal districts in "red" or "purple" states that are getting concerned about re-election.  Given that the House version of the bill only passed by a few votes to begin with; that pro-life Democrats (who voted for the first bill) have said they would oppose the Senate version because of its more permissive abortion language, and that -the one Republican that voted for it has now switched to a "no" vote, it's hard to see how the math will work.

But that's not their mentality.  Their thinking says that they now best - whether the American people agree or not.  They didn't come this far to their dream of laying the groundwork for government run healthcare only to back down now. And they're moving full speed ahead.

Contact them and let them know how you feel.

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