Originally Posted By: thedoctor
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
The Dems would be stupid to pull the 'reconciliation' trick. The Reps would murder them in the next election cycle with it.


It would upset a bunch of people who probably didn't vote for them in the last election cycle. They were not elected to avoid health care reform like the other party.


You're absolutely right, MEM. It's not like there is a group of voters who aren't registered to either the Democratic or Republican parties and vote based upon their own personal conscious instead of along party lines. Recent polls haven't showed that a majority of voters, including people from this fictional 'independent' status, have turned against the Health Care Reform plans of Congress and the President. There's no way that Dems won't get re-elected even if they bypass the will of the people and ram through a massively unpopular piece of legislation.


If it's a decent bill I think the dems will be ok. There's been alot of over the top rhetoric (death panels and all that) that will mostly stop if the bill gets passed. The polls changed they can change again. I'm sure it won't be a perfect bill but it won't be the bill that the gop has been trying to scare people with. If the dems don't pass a bill they won't have an energetic base and the middle of the road people that got scared about health care reform won't have a reason for voting dem either.

Fair play!