SPECIAL POST
Many Democrats have headed to Massachusetts to campaign for Coakley for the Senate seat being voted on Tuesday. Barney Frank has his bowels in an uproar, lamenting that a Brown win would mean the Health Care Bill will go down in flames, while fellow Democrats have been sourly stewing that democracy might work. For the first time in decades, there is a realistic possibility that the public will might win!
Over in the White House, aids are busily working to insert the President's requirements laid out last week during marathon meetings, into the Bill. The new Bill has a temporary setback; it has yet to go to the Congressional Budget Office for a review and cost analysis, but that could happen at any hour. As soon as the CBO puts a price tag on it, it goes back to the House where it will undoubtedly be voted on in short order.
Over at the Senate, the illustrious Ben Nelson from Nebraska who managed to glom onto an eternal Medicaid tax break for his state in return for his crucial December 24th vote in the Senate, has finally and reluctantly caved in to growing pressure from his constituents and the attorneys general of 15 states who are threatening to take Congress to Court; Nelson has asked that his deal be dropped from the Bill.
Keep those telephone calls, faxes and emails going. There is, for the very first time in this process, genuine concern in the halls of Congress and in the White House that passage may evoke massive public wrath.
They're right.
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