Reply #41: Absolutely right.

[John Q. Citizen]

Lieberman is doing the blocking for Baucus and Obama. They cut these deals with the insurance industry, and now they don't want progressives in the house screwing them up with their tiny non-functional PO that people think might be improved at some later date or with their drug price negotiations that Baucus and Obama already bargained away.

It's Romney Care or bust, baby!!!

The Repos don't want any bill passed at all, no matter what's in it, based purely on political expediency. But they have zero say in the process, because they only have 40 Senators, and Olympia Snowe is probably in the bag for the Dems if they jettison the non-functioning PO. Then Obama and Baucus can say it was bi-partisan. Yeah, right.

My guess is they (the senate) will leave the Stupak abortion deal and take out the PO. altogether.

Conference will take out both the PO, and the Stupak amendment. (there by killing two birds with one stone) At that point the left should demand that the Kucinich amendment be put back in for their support in both the house and the Senate (Sanders, Kerry, etc in the Senate, and the progressive caucus in the house in return for the removal of the non-fuctional POs) and we should have a bill.