March 17, 2010 at 3:24pm
With Dan Maffei and Dennis Kucinich embracing the health-care bill, Slate is putting the pro count at 208 out of the 216 needed to pass the bill in the House.
Things are looking better, then; but it's not at all time to celebrate. As Slate suggests, if the Congressional Budget Office has bad news when it puts dollar estimates on the bill, that could stop the pro-momentum.
So, unfortunately, could Louise Slaughter's suggestion that the House could pass the bill without actually voting on it. That tactic may have been used by the House since 1933, and it may have been used more times by Republicans than by Democrats, but that won't matter to many people. And it'll just ramp up the House rhetoric that the Dems are trying to force reform down Americans' throats.
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