Sanders withdrew his Medicare for all amendment so no vote was taken!!

[maryinthemorn]

I wanted to see an up and down vote on this but it did not even get a vote!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_care_overhaul

...........Sanders later said he was not yet ready to say he would vote for the legislation Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is drafting. Democrats are counting on him as one of the 60 votes they need, and have not betrayed any nervousness in recent days about his intentions.

The House already has approved its version of the health care bill, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Wednesday she was confident a final compromise would be signed into law before Obama's 2010 State of the Union address.

She signaled a willingness to look at the proposal in the Senate bill that takes the place of government-run insurance in the House bill.

Asked whether she could support a final bill without a so-called public option, she said, "it depends what else is in the bill."

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Associated Press writers Charles Babington, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Erica Werner and Sam Hananel contributed to this report.:(

[librechik]

1. but my table is so nice and clean, I'd hate to put anything messy like that on it...

[Bonescrat]

2. He didn't have much choice...nt

[Jersey Devil]

3. I'd like to have at least had it around to be scored by CBO

That certainly would be interesting and Reid could have arranged that if he wanted to.

[Cleita]

5. Neither Reid nor Pelosi want the CBO scoring the single-payer

expansion of Medicare offered in both houses. It would make any other crappola, the DLC corporate whores are trying to ram down our throats, look like the further looting of taxpayer's money that they are. It would make them look very bad.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Big shock - Republicans screwed him over.

[high density]

6. The party of NOOOOO strikes again

I hope the Democrats are taking notes of these tactics.