Posted on 01/19/2010 5:35:54 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
St. Paul, Minn. — U.S. Sen. Al Franken said "one way or the other" a health care reform bill will pass Congress.
But another hurdle could be ahead, depending on the outcome of Tuesday's special Senate election in Massachusetts.
Democrat Martha Coakley had been considered a shoo-in just months ago, but polls now show the race is a statistical dead heat. Republican candidate Scott Brown has vowed to be the 41st vote against President Barack Obama's domestic agenda.
Franken said Coakley probably took the race for granted. But the Minnesota Democrat also blames what he describes as misinformation put out by Republicans during the drawn-out health care debate.
"People have asked me what sort of surprised me in the Senate," Franken said. "And you think of it as the greatest debating society in the world, or it's billed as that, and it hasn't been, especially in the health care bill."
If Brown wins Tuesday's election, Democrats would no longer have a filibuster-proof majority. But Franken said that could be overcome by having the House vote on the health care bill senators passed last month, which would make a Senate vote on a conference bill unnecessary.
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Oh Franken, SIT DOWN, you have as much experience as O!!!
Sounds like how Franken got elected... one way or another.
And Al Franken has contributed to the image of the Senate as the great deliberative body, hasn’t he??????
STFU! You worm!!!
Liberty will prevail, “one way or the other” , A/H.
Another Pelosi type threat? How do they plan to back it up?
Franken...what a phoney. IMHO, this man has absolutely NO respect, no validity, no virtue to stand on. Anything he has to say should be ignored. Completely, totally ignored. Period.
I hope the only way it passes is Franken and Pelosi and Reid have to eat every page of the bill and spend the next day in the Krapper!
FRANKEN
We won
Franken may want to look around and take note of democrats who already appear to be making a hasty retreat.
Lets look at the RATINGS then.
MSNBC's ratings suck.
And that mental patient just called all of the people PROTESTING SOCIALISM "Tea Baggers", a slang term for putting testicles on the forehead, or something similarly perverted.
He and his fellow sex perverts , communists , baby killers, socialist crooks , trade unionists, imbeciles, and trial lawyers, will pay for that remark.
This is rich.
CONGRATULATIONS MSNBC, TONIGHT YOU PERSONIFY THE OLD SAW, THATS ENTERTAINMENT!!!!
I hope it doesn't pass and they still have to eat it. But I suspect if they eat that much paper it would bind them up something fierce and the crapper would be out of the question.
As in a football has a higher IQ>
And if you are from Minnesota, God you suck for letting this happen. What, Brain Freeze...? Jerks! Thaw out and vote right the next time........damn, people!
franken: go put on your diaper, you moronic, cheater loser. the American Patriots bare awakened. your ilk will be voted out and shunned.
That's because dems don't like open debates. They can't stand the truth!
Spell-check is your friend. Use it.
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