On Palm Sunday in 2005, the Republican-controlled Senate passed a controversial bill to allow a federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo. The House passed the same bill shortly after midnight on Monday morning.
What's happening now is that the House of Representatives is somewhere between 5 and 10 more vote commitments required for the health insurance reform bill to pass. The major Catholic newspaper, the National Catholic Reporter, has endorsed it, along with the nuns. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has scored the bill as cutting the federal deficit by $138 billion over the next decade and $1.2 trillion over the decade following.
Yep -- it finally seems like the fiscally conservative thing to do is, in fact, to vote for reform.
Although I don't expect that opinion to show up anytime soon on Faux News.
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btw: As per our conversation the other day, I'm pretty convinced HCR will pass by only 1 vote. As soon as it hits 216, various DLCers and Blue Dogs will be given the opportunity to jump offboard to make whatever disingenuous point they want to make to the people they consider their actual constituents.
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