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Sunday, January 17, 2010

If Dems lose on Tue. does health care bill die?

On Tuesday Jan. 19th 2010, the impossible could happen and a Republican could win a senate election in Massachusetts.  This could derail the current plans from the administration that will foist some pretty unpopular legislation on us.  Should the Dems lose their super majority, the health-care bill can only pass should:
  1. they start over with a new "friendlier" bill and pass it using budget reconciliation.
  2. ANOTHER Republican jump-the-fence and join the Democrats (Olympia Snowe).
  3. they act before Brown can be sworn-in.
Should any of these 3 occur, this bill would become the most unpopular law of my time. 

Lets not forget that the Dems are only in this spot because Sen. Kennedy had the Mass. legislature change an election law back to its original version, allowing the governor of Massachusetts to appoint an interim senator.  Sen. Kennedy had originally had this low reversed due to the presence of a Republican governor.  Since there is a Democrat governor now, he wanted the govenor to be able to appoint an interim senator without an immediate special election.  This kind of crazy political manipulation of law has, unfortunately, become the norm instead of the exception.

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