With the victory of Scott Brown in Massachusetts killing the 60 vote majority in the Senate and the backlash of fear generated in democrats up for election in 2010 it was easy to think that the healthcare bill would be declared D.O.A.
Don't celebrate its demise yet.
Politico reports that Prince Harry and Duchess Pelosi have more tricks up their respective sleeves.
Earlier this week, Pelosi said she did not have the votes to pass the Senate bill unchanged through the House. And Reid, who lost his 60-vote majority Tuesday, does not have the votes to make wholesale changes to legislation his chamber passed last month.
So, leaders are considering making limited changes that can be passed using a budget process called reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes in the Senate.
Beware, for while we are smiling to ourselves thinking the election of Scott Brown has given us the 41st vote to stop the healthcare fiasco, Prince Harry and Nancy Pelosi may be planning to make some changes to the bill and then slip it through the Senate with 51 votes.
Keep your eye on them, folks, watch the other hand.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31886.html#ixzz0dXWml7jl
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