The public option: how many of us remember when and why it died?

[TheKentuckian]

39. This is correct. My recollection is there was the lame "Elections have consequences" line was thrown

around a fair bit on both sides as the rationale for there not being a real reconciliation vote, seemingly with some Blue Dog types threatening to bail if anything was changed as well.

My belief is they were getting that Baucus mark come hell and high water, by hook of by crook. It was ALL about that mark the whole fucking way with a shit ton of TeaPubliKlan amendments in exchange for jackapple shit.

This was the design the whole way, anything else is Fantasy, delusion, or lies.

Kennedy's passing provided a lame and convoluted excuse and came as no surprise. Of course there could have been a conference reconciliation but Democrats did not want one. There never were any Republican votes and Kennedy was not who voted for the final product at all.

The budget reconciliation was required for the somehow acceptable changes like taking out the Louisiana purchase and the Cornhusker kickback.

The "we had to vote for it verbatim" is a lie. The House had to vote a verbatim of the Senate Bill because the Senate and the President insisted that do under this "the voters have spoken" horseshit rationale rather than ANY legal compunction, they then we're forced to vote the "fix" bill passed via reconciliation.