They Can Do It

by digby

So, in this mornings committee, Kent Conrad and John Kyl had a dust-up wherein Kyl bravely defended the elderly from the Democrats who are angling to take away their medicare while Conrad sounded like he'd be up for death panels if it would save the treasury a couple of bucks.

Here's the result:

Mitch McConnell: They have a president, a large majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate. If they all want to join together in unison and raise taxes and cut medicare, they can do that.


It has a ring to it, doesn't it?

Here's how Mike Viqueira summed it all up for us:

Mike Viqueria: When's it all going to be done Dr Nancy? We simply don't know. We do know that in the House of Representatives, the big issue is the Public Option. Nancy Pelosi wants to get a bill as far leaning left as she possibly can get out of the House knowing that out of the Senate, there will be no public option in the bill and if and when this thing does come to the conference, she'll be in a stronger bargaining position.

Also, she would be able to demonstrate to the left leaning base of the Democratic party that she's doing everything she can to get that public option --- which they hold so dear.


That would be a great plan if only the far leftward position wasn't the public option.

And what happened to the Kennedy bill? Last I heard, it had a public option in it too. I know that the country elected Kent Conrad and Olympia Snowe to run the country so what they say goes, but still, we usually have a formal vote on these things before the press declares that something is over. I guess that's old fashioned...


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