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Fatal Loose Lips

By John Batchelor on November 20, 2009 at 11:00 PM in Current Affairs

 

60 Votes.  
Retiring Vermont Senator Judd Gregg was quoted in The Hill arguing in a sour fashion that the Democrats would pass some version of healthcare by moaning about 60 votes in the Senate and then constructing them afterall. The bill then will go to Conference, where all the progressive cooking by Mrs. Pelosi will be ladled into the Senate’s cautious cake mix, and then Hary Reid will find another 60 votes to pass the public option lite. Gregg offered no evidence for his measure, just craggy and disconsolate fatalism.

I half-believed the Gregg scenario until I spied a (above) peculiar performance by Senate Democratic whip Dick Durbin.

“It has to pass in the Senate this year…. I, I, want it to…”  

There are only six weeks left in the year.   Loose lips like this sinks ships.

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  • Just_Saying

    I trust Gregg before I trust Durbin. The senators are being paid off to vote for the healthcare bill. They don’t care about re-election because they know they’ll get pay-back even if they lose an election.

    Nauseating.
    .

  • TexasMirth

    I, too, trust Gregg over Durbin…but this video does offer a bit of hope that MAYBE some senators are putting America over party. I’m going to cling to that hope.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTmLKUT817Y Eldear Jhane

    Vermont, huh?