HCR Public Option Reconciliation Thread (Another expected signee)

[Suji to Seoul]

Another in the "definite" category. Chriss Dodd (D-CT) has signed the letter.

We need at least 50 to force a Biden tie breaker vote. Including 41 GOP "no" votes, the count is 51 - 47 - 2.

Let's look at the 41 who have stated to use Reconciliation. Let's assume we have those:
Feinstein, Kerry, Sanders, Brown, Whitehouse, Bennet, Burris, Gillibrand, Merkeley, Franken, Leahy, Schumer, Reed, Boxer, Udall, Mikulski, Shaheen, Lautenberg, Durbin, Specter, Casey, Dorgan, Cardin, Bingamen, Menendez, Wyden, Stabenow, Johnson, Feingold, Inouye, Carper, Levin, Klobuchar, Murray, Kaufman, Udall, Byrd, Cantwell, Reid, Begich, Dodd

The following are leans "yes" votes (based on voting record, ideology and public speeches): (10 total yes votes)
Kohl - WI; Akaka - HI; Tester - MT; Harkin - IA; Webb - VA; Warner - VA; McCaskill - MO; Bayh - IN; Hagan - NC; Landrieu - LA

The following are definite "maybe" votes: (2) votes
Conrad - ND (Since I have not heard a peep from him, he's in the maybe section. Someone help me out.)
Baucus - MT (From cold to Lukewarm due to the growing support)

The following are the "no" votes, the Blue Dog, DINO-moles in the Senate: (6 votes)
Bill Nelson - FL (no completely. Too bought.)
Ben Nelson - NE (no completely. Too selfish.)
Pryor - AR (No chance for his vote. Too brain dead.)
Rockefeller - WV (WILL NOT SUPPORT RECONCILIATION. APPARENTLY THERE ARE NO POOR PEOPLE IN WV.)
Lincoln - AR (WILL NOT SUPPORT RECONCILIATION. APPARENTLY THERE ARE NO POOR PEOPLE IN AR.)
Lieberman - CT (WILL NOT SUPPORT RECONCILIATION. THIS MOLE NEEDS TO BE DROPPED FROM THE CAUCUS.)

We do not have it, but we are so close to a 50-50 with a Biden "yes" tie-breaker that the finish line looks a few steps away!!! Expect 41 no votes (44 with these DINO assholes).

Keep up the heat now on the YES votes: EVERY "leans yes" vote and now start presurring Jay Rockefeller! Let's get this across the finish line!!! WE ARE SO CLOSE!!!

[Lasher]

1. I hear the Senate Republicans are going to turn all uncooperative on us if we do this.

I can't imagine what that would be like.

I'm a registered WV Democrat. I'll contact Jay today. But I'll probably just get a raspberry from him like I did when I asked him to support some kind of retribution against Lieberman when the 111th Congress organized in January 2009.

[pnwmom]

2. They're already filibustering everything. I don't know what else they can do. n/t

[Lasher]

4. Well yeah, I was tryin ta make a funnee.

I think my delivery was off. I'm not gonna give up my day job.

[pnwmom]

5. No, I understood you, Lasher. But that IS what some people are threatening.

I was just agreeing with you that it's a pretty empty threat.

[Lasher]

6. I was thinking of Orrin Hatch's performance this Sunday on Press the Meat.

I thought I would hurl.

Video: E.J. Dionne Jr. destroys Orrin Hatch on Reconciliation - 03/07/10 on Meet the Press

[ThomWV]

3. The most frustrating calls I make are to Rockefeller's Offices

And I call them all, each of his "Home" offices and of course his DC office. I e-mail him, I write him. When I call and talk to those rosy voices and its like talking to a brick.

[Lasher]

7. My experience too.

I'm accustomed to getting a snail mail response about 3 weeks later, after all's said and done concerning the issue at hand. In the last response I got, Jay pretty much said, 'Bite me, I'll do whatever I want and I don't care what you think.' But he did say it in a way that sounded real purtee.