Follow this link to the article that explains how the GOP made health care reform happen.

A special thanks goes out to Scott Brown.  Without his win, this might never have happened.  Without him there would have to have been 60 Democratic Senators to vote for the bill.  Now there only needs to be 51 to vote for the reconciliation.  I guess Martha Coakley is a more astute politician than I had thought.

I didn’t quite see it the way the above article does, but I had been thinking that the more difficult the Republicans make it, the more compromises have to go into the bill.  It might have been a cleaner bill if the Republicans had not used the threat to  filibuster and had just let the bill come to a vote.  They could still have all voted against the bill and it might have been a better bill.

According to the news yesterday, the passage of the bill meant death to the Democrats come November.  Miraculously, today, after the bill passed, the same press thinks it might help the Democrats in November.  I guess it is sort of like trying to explain why the stock market goes this way or that on a daily basis.  You can make up anything, and there is no one who will disprove your thesis.