{"id":417085,"date":"2010-03-11T14:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=72321"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:49:02","slug":"durbin-and-reid-whipping-against-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/417085","title":{"rendered":"Durbin and Reid Whipping Against Public Option"},"content":{"rendered":"
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sincerity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Remember all those wonderful list building exercises from Harry Reid and Dick Durbin last year? You know, the ones where they told you how much they supported the public option, and snagged your email in the process?<\/p>\n

Because I sure do. Here was Durbin<\/a>’s:<\/p>\n

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The question is no longer if we will have some sort of public option in the final health care reform bill, but instead what form it will take.
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\nIf any member of the Democratic caucus thinks no one will notice the absence of a robust public option in the final health care reform bill, they have another thing coming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Harry Reid even had Google ads<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Want The Public Option?<\/a>
\nReid\u2019s Fighting For It. What Have You\u00a0Done\u00a0To\u00a0Help?\u00a0Step Up Now!
\nHarryReid.com\/PublicOption<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ah, memories.\u00a0 Well, that was then.\u00a0 From Roll Call<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Wednesday that leaders will have to ask rank-and-file Democrats to vote against health care amendments they may support once a reconciliation bill comes to the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cWe have to urge members to stick with the basic bill,\u201d Durbin told reporters. \u201cAnd we know Republicans are going to offer a ton of amendments as they always do and we know that if an amendment is adopted, it stops or slows down the process. We have to get this done and move on to more jobs bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But Harry Reid doesn’t want to be left out of the party.\u00a0 Also from Roll Call<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said leaders will ask their Members to defeat popular amendments even though they sympathize with liberals\u2019 desire to push proposals that, during last year\u2019s Senate floor debate, did not have the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster. Reconciliation rules require only a 51-vote majority to prevail.
\n\u201cCertainly there are plenty of Members who have ideas to improve the bill,\u201d Manley said. \u201cThe difference is … Republicans will be offering amendments to take the bill down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I get it.\u00a0 Now that they don’t have the 60 vote excuse any more, it’s the REPUBLICAN amendments they really need to keep in check.\u00a0 Never mind that there aren’t 51 Republicans.\u00a0 As I recall, this was the same fabulous thinking that kept all amendments off the floor in the House bill — except Bart Stupak’s.<\/p>\n

And if they have to kill student loan reform to do it, Durbin’s more than willing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the addition of the student loan \u2014 ending the student loan subsidy to big banks and Sallie Mae \u2014 helps us pass health care reform it should be included. If it hurts us, then we can\u2019t include it,\u201d Durbin said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Fuck you, kids.\u00a0 That $4.7 billion that was going to go to students and state funded colleges struggling to stay afloat?\u00a0 Well, Sallie Mae gets another private jet.\u00a0 Or golf course.\u00a0 You just have to wait until next year, when there’s another shot at reconciliation, since the lobbyists have bought off so many Senators already, and sadly, there just aren’t 60 votes.<\/p>\n

Sign the petition — tell the Senate to pass the damn student loan bill NOW and just for once say “no” to Citibank and JP Morgan.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tags: Dick Durbin<\/a>, Harry Reid<\/a>, public option<\/a><\/p>\n

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sincerity Remember all those wonderful list building exercises from Harry Reid and Dick Durbin last year? You know, the ones where they told you how much they supported the public option, and snagged your email in the process? Because I sure do. Here was Durbin’s: The question is no longer if we will have some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}