Jane Hamsher: Martha Coakley and ‘Sidecar’ Reconciliation – The Public Option Lives Again
Now the Dems might have to do reconciliation…
So what option do they have to fix the health care bill that doesn’t require 60 votes in the Senate? Well, [DCCC head] Chris Van Hollen is now using the “R†word — reconciliation. It’s interesting that the head of the DCCC, whose job it is to get Democrats elected in 2010, is the one who recognizes the need to rescue the health care bill from the Senate corporatists like Joe Lieberman who would take the entire party down to give Aetna a big payday. Win-win for him, really
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