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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-20-10 12:35 PM
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18. i think the dems waited for the insurance companies
to gouge everyone by raising premiums, as they just have, to bring the public option back into play. now even more voters will be backing the public option.

however, if the final bill is a gift to the insurance companies,as has been suggested, then the dems need to hang that around the necks of the repubs. however they do that will be fine with me.

ellen fl
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  -I am betting the Public Option talk is a ruse. Perky  Feb-20-10 10:50 AM   #0 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Feb-20-10 10:52 AM   #1 
  - Exactly. It is called the BYRD RULE and those 20 signing the letter have to know that.  jamesp68   Feb-20-10 10:57 AM   #5 
  - So how did Bush manage to use reconciliation to pass his tax cuts?  ProSense   Feb-20-10 11:13 AM   #10 
     - The vote was 65-35.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Feb-20-10 11:29 AM   #11 
     - Final vote  ProSense   Feb-20-10 11:44 AM   #16 
        - That's the second round of tax cuts. The 2001 tally was 58-33.  RUMMYisFROSTED   Feb-20-10 12:57 PM   #21 
     - It might be BS but it's a great put down on the Dems  FreakinDJ   Feb-20-10 11:40 AM   #15 
  - Yes. it is 20 Senators trying to deflect blame from themselves and at the 39 not signing.  jamesp68   Feb-20-10 10:55 AM   #2 
  - I predict it passes becomes hugely sucessful to the point where even republican voters want it.  Skink   Feb-20-10 10:56 AM   #3 
  - The problems is the Senators can't see beyond the first Tuesday in November  Perky   Feb-20-10 10:59 AM   #7 
  - I Mentioned as much on another thread  fascisthunter   Feb-20-10 10:56 AM   #4 
  - Either it was a ruse that it was gone or that its back  Oregone   Feb-20-10 10:57 AM   #6 
  - It had better NOT be!  Kyril Enko   Feb-20-10 11:03 AM   #8 
  - I think it may be used to get the necessary Senators to agree to  Pirate Smile   Feb-20-10 11:11 AM   #9 
  - I like to post this Ezra Klein article every once in a while to remind people of where Social  Pirate Smile   Feb-20-10 11:30 AM   #12 
  - Different era.  Hello_Kitty   Feb-20-10 11:37 AM   #13 
     - SCHIP  Hippo_Tron   Feb-20-10 04:16 PM   #25 
     - The Prescription Drug Benefit was added to Medicare.  Pirate Smile   Feb-20-10 05:56 PM   #28 
  - Nope, they made us furious, conflicted and dissillusioned, by continuously  Gman2   Feb-20-10 11:39 AM   #14 
  - I have a bridge called the Brooklyn Bridge I'll sell you.  Xicano   Feb-20-10 03:38 PM   #23 
  - Little political upside to ramming the public option through with reconciliation? Are you sure?  WatchWhatISay   Feb-20-10 12:06 PM   #17 
  - There is a fundamental difference conservative and liberal voting habits  Perky   Feb-20-10 12:51 PM   #19 
     - Republican voters will be at least as incensed by hcr w/o public option in Nov., as hcr with it.  burning rain   Feb-20-10 04:48 PM   #27 
  - i think the dems waited for the insurance companies  ellenfl   Feb-20-10 12:35 PM   #18 
  - If ou paint Wellpoint as the enemy and the Republicans as their stooges  Perky   Feb-20-10 12:54 PM   #20 
  - I'll believe it when I see it  CanonRay   Feb-20-10 01:35 PM   #22 
  - I will not believe this till its over and done.  freddie mertz   Feb-20-10 04:11 PM   #24 
  - of course, you do.  Aramchek   Feb-20-10 04:20 PM   #26 
  - Well then, a descision has to be made  Canuckistanian   Feb-20-10 06:09 PM   #29 
  - Then it's up to us to make it not a ruse.  backscatter712   Feb-20-10 06:21 PM   #30 
  - The problem is  LatteLibertine   Feb-20-10 08:36 PM   #31 
  - On point exactly  Raine   Feb-20-10 08:49 PM   #32 
 

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