Blanche's Corner Shrinks

Thursday, 29 October 2009 09:15

John Brummett reports on Blanche's ongoing issues with her healthcare vote:

Reid wants the centrists to say they dare not stand with Republicans as obstructionists simply to moving the process along, regardless of how they feel about any particulars in the bill.

Somebody else might get away with that transparent finesse. Pryor might, actually, because he’s not on the ballot again for five years, a couple of eons in electoral politics.

Blanche can’t. She’s on the ballot now. Emotions rage on health care now. Frustration with her mushy, convoluted evasiveness grows now.

For her to try such a stunt would be fatal, a victim of two piercing wounds.

First, voters would put her down as voting for the bill because she voted to let it get to the floor for certain passage. And that would be true. Republican leader Mitch McConnell is already casting a vote for cloture of a filibuster as a vote for a public option.

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