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Originally Posted by kane
Brown's primary platform is "If you want to kill the health care bill, vote for me." If he wins he will give the republicans 41 members that is enough to overcome the cloture the democrats have and it would allow them to effectively filibuster anything they wanted. So, in theory, if he wins it will give the republicans the opportunity to basically bring the senate to a halt any time they want and kill or derail any bill they want. Who knows how often they would actually do this, but if he wins it would be a big weapon for them.
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And nothing will get done and in 2012 they can say "See Obama didn't do anything". Then if another repub gets elected president and they take over Congress again then they will do for healthcare what they did between 2001-2007 which is NOTHING. Except pass some bills that favor the insurance companies and do nothing or patients. Oh wait, my bad, the GOP did pass the prescription drug bill which is costing us taxpayers a MINIMUM of a half a TRILLION over the first 10 years of the program.