Anything’s Possible
by digby
The banksters love Scottie Brown:
In a six-day span just before the US Senate election, Republican Scott Brown collected nearly $450,000 from donors who work at financial companies, a sign the industry is prepared to spend heavily in the upcoming midterm elections to beat back new controls and taxes President Obama wants to impose.
The donations, from hundreds of financial executives, far exceeded what Brown received from doctors and others in the health care industry in the final days of the campaign. While Brown saw donations from all quarters explode in mid-January, as polls showed him closing fast on opponent Martha Coakley, the donations from financial workers coincided with several key developments that would affect their companies.This wasn’t a “kill health care” Senate seat purchase. This was a “preserve my $100 million bonus” Senate seat purchase.
Tell it to Chris Matthews, who still insists the race was about voter rejection of the public option.
Speaking of which, if you haven’t had a chance to call your representative to ask them to vote for a public option if the health care bill goes to reconciliation, do it today. The PCCC has been able to get 81 Reps on the record supporting such a move in just a week, using this handy tool to help you do that.
It’s hard to know where this is going, but it seems obvious that any deal is going to have to include a reconciliation package and if that’s the case, the public option should be on the table again. It’s clearly a budgetary item that can fit into the reconciliation framework and they only need 51 to pass it.
Click here for an easy tool to help you call. I wouldn’t have thought that a teabagging Republican male centerfold could win Teddy Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts, but he did. Anything’s possible.
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