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As Marco Rubio dials up the pressure, does Bill Nelson feel the squeeze?
Posted Jan 19, 2011 by Tom Jackson
Updated Jan 19, 2011 at 07:36 PM
In an event closely related to the post below, freshman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Miami) fires a salvo across Majority Leader (until 2013) Harry Reid’s bow. Says Rubio:
“In voting to repeal ObamaCare, our colleagues in the House have taken an important step. We need to repeal the federal health care law and replace it with common sense reforms that will lower health care costs and get more Americans insured. ObamaCare creates uncertainty for job creators, threatens Medicare as Floridians know it and lays the foundation for government-run health care.
“Instead, we need to replace it with reforms that promote competition, empower patients with more high-quality health-care options, combat fraud and integrate the latest technologies to make the system more efficient and the patient better informed. I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate to repeal and replace ObamaCare, and hope the Democrat leadership will heed the American people’s call by allowing an up-or-down vote.”
Democratic leadership in the Senate may well resist, initially, but one wonders whether donks from tradititionally red states who face tough reelection battles (Claire McCaskill in Missouri, Ben Nelson in Nebraska, to cite two; our own Bill Nelson may also qualify) really want to face conservative-leaning voters having to (a) defend their support for ObamaCare while (b) resisting attempts to start anew?
As a matter of policy and politics, only a handful of Democratic senators need to go wobbly before Wednesday’s vote in the House turns out to have far more punch than the mere symbolism claimed by the White House and Senate majority leaders.
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