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Defections have Dems ISO Plan B
politico.com - 10/28/2009
Defections have Dems ISO Plan B
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Reid’s appeals for party unity on a public option land with a thud as centrists push back.

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The Note:  Hard Counts: There’s a big ‘I’ in ‘Win’ as Reid shops for votes

Instapundit:  POLITICO: Defections have some Democrats casting about for Plan B….

Hot Air » Top Picks:  Can the House deliver a robust public option?

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Hard Counts: There’s a big ‘I’ in ‘Win’ as Reid shops for votes
The Note — ... "In the near term, at least, Reid will be judged on whether he can persuade his 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority to hold tight. He has one simple refrain that he repeats in private conversations with senators and that he repeated at Tuesday's Democratic luncheon: The caucus must stick together on health care reform," Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports. ...

POLITICO: Defections have some Democrats casting about for Plan B….
Instapundit — POLITICO: Defections have some Democrats casting about for Plan B.

Can the House deliver a robust public option?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... and never in specifics.  Two months ago, the administration threatened to release its own version of ObamaCare in order to get past the impasse on Capitol Hill, but that plan has yet to materialize.  Obama knows that the public option has become unpopular and he wants to avoid linking it to himself, preferring to have Pelosi and Harry Reid tarred with its brush rather than himself.  That may be many things, but leadership it is not. If the House can’t pass a public option, then Reid’s off the hook .  One has to wonder whether he may not secretly root for that outcome so that ...

Harry Reid doesn't have the votes
Wizbang — Politico has an analysis of the latest developments with the health care deliberations in the Senate. (Hat tip: Instapundit .) The article begins: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's appeals for party unity landed with a thud Tuesday with the very group he needs for his public-option push to pay off: centrists who hold the key to health reform. And not just any centrists but one who makes liberals see red: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who said Tuesday that he'd back a GOP attempt to block the bill from moving to final passage. While Lieberman is no longer a Democrat, ...

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