As if I couldn't love Sherrod Brown anymore.

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Coburn and Vitter preventing Democrats from co-sponsoring public option amendment. (Updated)

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[erunamiryene]

[chasingtides]

Win!

[thebigbadbutch]

I wish they would force senators into the public option so we don't get stuck with some b.s.

Now that Al Franken is on it I think maybe he can make it pass and make some Republicans look like jackasses at the same time.

[taiki]

on a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 being the best on how much i love al franken?

the number is zero.

[thebigbadbutch]

What a weird scale.

I think Franken can be the next Teddy Kennedy but funnier.

[taiki]

I had to work a "the number is zero" reference somewhere.

Yeah, funnier and less tragic.

[meimichan]

Ahh, Sherrod Brown...I miss you as my senator. Because now I have Feingold, and he is confusing me here. :\

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Mr. Feingold, in a statement, said he voted against Ms. Mikulski’s proposal because of the projected cost of $940 million over 10 years.

“I am disappointed that the Senate health care debate has gotten off on the wrong foot,” he said. “The first amendment voted on would add almost a billion dollars to our budget deficits over the next 10 years. We should make sure health plans cover women’s preventive care and screenings, but we should also find a way to pay for it, rather than adding that cost to the already mountainous public debt.”

Feingold is a good guy, he supports the public option & single payer (not to mention his other very progressive stances) but he's also very fiscally strict. I don't blame him for voting against it tbh.

But Democrat Sherrod Brown (D-OH) has called them on their gimmick:

[evildevil]

wow, republicans, please keep this up and soon you will be hanged with your own rope...