thunder wrote:
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:10:16 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:52 -0700, jps wrote:

Make no mistake about it: President Obama and the Democrats are not
going to back down until they get this bill done.
Oh yeah - they sure are going to get it done.

I was more concerned with the Blue Dog Democrats, than I was with the
Progressives, and the Blue Dogs seem to be getting on board. The House
isn't a problem, but the Senate could have been. I'm thinking there will
be perhaps 1/2 dozen, or so, Republican Senators that will also come over
from the dark side.

Something has to be done. Moderate Republicans know something has to be
done. Just saying No ain't going to cut it.


I believe a bill reasonably close to what Obama highlighted last night
will land on his desk.

I agree about the progressives. They're not stupid. Under Obama's
proposals, they're getting nearly a full platter of what they wanted. It
would be foolish for them to sit on their hands and hope for something
better.

As has been discussed, the biggest fear of the Republicans is that
*anything* gets passed, because whatever is passed will be something the
majority of voters will like, and it will be awfully easy for the Dems
to run ads in 2010 and 2012 against those nasty ReThugs who opposed
health care reform.

Moderate Republicans? You mean the two Senators from Maine?




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