Senate Democrats Wheeling & Dealing To Get ObamaCare Passed

Senate Democrats Wheeling & Dealing To Get ObamaCare Passed

According to all reports Sen. Harry Reid has caved to Lieberman and will now cut out pretty much everything important to liberals in ObamaCare to get him on board and get this POS passed.

Reporting from Washington – Senate Democratic leaders, scrambling for the 60 votes they need to pass the healthcare overhaul bill, moved Monday to strike a controversial proposal for expanding Medicare and proceed without a new government insurance program, the so-called public option.

So now Reid needs to get to 60 votes to pull the public option crap out of the bill just to get it passed. But the hardcore Socialist amongst them is resisting. Specifically Burris, Franken, Brown, Feingold and Sanders.

But according to Redstate the Democratic leadership is threatening Sanders to get him on board:

The White House and Democratic Leadership in the Senate has told Senator Nelson they will close every military base in Nebraska — a threat that is not credible, really — but they have also offered Senator Nelson between $300 million to $500 million in earmarks, according to key hill health care operatives. These hundreds of millions will be available for whatever he wants to spend them on in Nebraska.

Given Senator Nelson’s hard core earmarking history as an appropriator, the word on the street is that this is the real carrot that could get Nelson to agree to some cover amendment that would allege to protect the innocent unborn from government funding of abortion, but, in fact, would not.

Unless a Sanders or Burris — or some other liberal — objects to the bill having no public option, then if Nelson holds the bill dies, and if Nelson does not hold, the bill passes. Given that the Dems have caved to Lieberman — this is the whole ball game — Senator Nelson.

More backroom dealings then ever from this Administration. Not shocking at all.

They now understand ObamaCare will not pass with their Socialist dreams so they want to pass anything, absolutely anything, to help them in 2010 and with Medicare gone the cost of this bill has been reduced.

Some may say we have won in pretty much killing this bill but I would disagree. All that matters is the bill passes and then Obama can create another czar to implement everything he wants, just like he did with the EPA recently.

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