| | I think we've been bait and switched on this 'deeming' thing.
Here is what happened.
1] Two incompataible versions of the bill, one passed by the House, one by the Senate, neither going to be supported by all(or even any, but 1 dissenter would do)republicans. therefore,... "I can't govern without passage by 60 votes in the Senate."
2] Mass elects Brown in Kennedy's seat.
3] "Maybe 51 votes is good enough."
4] Let's float a much worse idea, this 'deeming' nonsense. Let's concoct a total bit of nonsense that gets us around the requirement that both houses send the same bill to the POTUS, and we'll kinda sorta let the House fix the bill any way they want, without sending it back to the Senate.
5] The nation goes apeshit on the 'deeming' idea.
6] They retreat back to "Maybe 51 votes is good enough."
7] Suddenly, 'Maybe 51 votes is good enough' doesn't seem nearly as insane as the 'deeming' nonsense. Which was the entire point of floating the 'deeming' idea...
We've been jerked around by political street theatre.
Is a free America really this intellectually defenseless against this nonsense?
regards,
Fred
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