Exclusive: Sen. Thune lays out Democrats' strategy to ram through Obamacare

Patriot Room ^ | October 21, 2009 | Bill Dupray

[Bill Dupray]

Sen. Thune highlighted the difficulty the Democrats may have in convincing enough of their own members to vote for a huge, expensive new entitlement on top of tax increases and Medicare cuts. He laid out how he thought the Dems would try to push it through the Senate.

1. First, they will merge the Finance and HELP Committee bills and include a clear public option. They will then try to get the bill through in regular order, meaning with a normal cloture vote requiring 60 votes. This is obviously subject to a filibuster by the Republicans if they can peel off a Democrat. Including the public option up front appeases the liberal base. If it goes down, the Democrats can say they tried, but that there weren't enough votes. The moonbat attacks on the Dems who vote against cloture on that one ought to be interesting.

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