Thanks to Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson and several other Democrats, the bill that will ultimately emerge from the Senate will amount to a pile of nothing. Each new compromise is designed not to reform healthcare (that noble objective was forgotten a long time ago), but to get something, anything, that will garner sixty votes. What is so looney about this is that the Democrats apparently do not give a hoot about the fact that there is not one iota of bi-partisan support for this monstrosity, nor do they seem to care that polls indicate that almost 60% of the public does not like what's in the bill. The White House has apparently told Majority Leader Harry Reid to cut a deal with Lieberman and be done with it before Christmas.
Keep in mind, that this is only the preliminary round. The real fun will start when the House and the Senate try to reconcile their two respective bills. They are very far apart on the public option, abortion and taxes. Stay tuned.
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