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Senator Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska, finally signs on to the health care reform measure.
Of course, they basically had to bribe him with tens of millions of federal Medicaid funds for his state, and limit abortion funding in newly created insurance exchanges in order to get his vote. In some ways, he's just as fucking slimy as Lieberman.
But this gives the Democrats 60 votes. (Assuming that Lieberman doesn't cut and run on them. Again.) Cue the wingnuts heads exploding in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Of course, they basically had to bribe him with tens of millions of federal Medicaid funds for his state, and limit abortion funding in newly created insurance exchanges in order to get his vote. In some ways, he's just as fucking slimy as Lieberman.
But this gives the Democrats 60 votes. (Assuming that Lieberman doesn't cut and run on them. Again.) Cue the wingnuts heads exploding in 5... 4... 3... 2...
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Yeah, hopefully, this will lead to the health care reforms that need to be done, and this bill won't be the beginning and the end of it. I'm also hopeful that Lieberman will lose his next election.