Ping pong, anyone? A procedural view on where we go from here on HC

The Patriot Room ^ | December 21, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

[clyde_m]

First, let's presume that Lieberman, Nelson, Webb, Lincoln, and Bayh stay off their meds and continue to vote for ReidCare in the two upcoming required cloture votes. The result would be two different health-care bills - one from the House, and one from the Senate. The normal procedure afterward would be appoint conferees for a joint Conference Committee. The Committee would unify the bills, which would return to each chamber for a final vote. As we noted earlier, since the unified bill would be subject to debate in the Senate there would, therefore, be one final cloture vote (and one last opportunity for the physicians of the several aforementioned senators to adjust their script regimens).

[Uncle Miltie]

We could launch a fake liberal campaign:

1) Call every Dem Congressman and demand the key point in the House Bill that are completely unacceptable to the Senate.

2) Call each Dem Senator and demand they keep the key points in the Senate Bill that are completely unacceptable to the House.

Set the Senate against the House.

Anyhow, it’s an option.