…we just can’t tell you what it is. That apparently applies to even the Democrats own leadership.
Responding to a complaint by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that Republicans haven’t been told what’s in the new bill, Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, responded that he’s in the same position.
“I would say to the senator from Arizona that I’m in the dark almost as much as he is. And I’m in the leadership,” Durbin said on the Senate floor.
One can only hope that Rich Lowry is correct in his assertion that the Reid bill is “tottering”…
The Reid bill is really tottering now. “If this thing falls apart, you can look back to today as the tipping point,” says a Republican aide in the Senate, echoing what Lamar Alexander notes in the Costa post below. First, there was last night’s CNN poll showing 61 percent opposition. Then, there was the devastating CMS report today. “Nobody went to the floor that I could see to defend it on the Democratic side,” says the aide. The back-drop for all this is the non-deal that Reid hyped as a break-through earlier this week, only to have it unravel almost immediately. Even Bill Nelson says the Medicare buy-in is basically a “non-starter.”
How’s that Hope and Change and new openness in government working out?
