Jane Hamsher: It’s Harry Reid’s Choice .. Reconciliation = Majority Rule
Goldman Sachs expects insurance stocks to rise by 59% in 10 years if there is no public option, but drop by 36% if there is one. That’s what happens when nobody likes your product. Their fat profits depend on being the only game in town. The only way these insurance industry shills [Lieberman, Lincoln, Landrieu, etc] can keep a public option from passing is by stopping the bill from ever coming to a vote. If Harry Reid can’t even get them in line for a simple procedural vote, then he can use “reconciliation†to restore democracy to the Senate and call for a majority vote on the public option… It comes down to a simple question: will Harry Reid allow for majority rule? Or will he let corrupt members of his own caucus block a majority of the public and Congress who want a public option?
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