Nothing succeeds like success

[louis c]

Since the Health Care Reform Bill passed the House, then the Senate and now the house again and has been signed into law by President Obama, his numbers have skyrocketed. In less than a week, Obama has gone from a minus 3 (and a Drudge headline that the President is "upside down in the polls") to a plus 9 points today at Gallup. That's a 12 point swing in less than 7 days.

I know some folks here are disappointed that the bill doesn't go far enough, and I agree. But what constructive alternative do we have? We need more liberal Democrats to move this bill further in the direction that will make health insurance more affordable. We can now move this bill with a simple majority any time we have the political strength and will. I'd rather be us than them. And, until some unimaginable political earthquake changes our 2 party system, that's all there is. Us and Them.


Link to Gallup:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

[butterfly77]

1. Well,that means it is time..

for the media to get started on trying to knock that down..

[lamp_shade]

2. You said we can now move this bill with a simple majority. Is that true? 51 votes are all

that is needed to pass amendments? Tell me it's really true.

[louis c]

3. Why not?

didn't we just do that after the bill passed. What's the difference between 2 days and 2 years. It's the same bill that was signed into law. Of course, it has to abide by the restrictive reconciliation rules, but we even changed college loan rules attached to the original bill, so the rules can be used.