Now this is rich:
Democrats were leaning Tuesday toward a plan to force the Senate’s version of health-care reform through the House if Republican Scott Brown wins the Massachusetts Senate seat.
“We’ve read the Constitution,” said one senior Democratic strategist. “They can do it. The Senate doesn’t have to pass it twice.”
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If these bastards had read the Constitution, they wouldn’t be Democrats.
UPDATE: Ed Driscoll has nailed it.
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Let them go ahead and pass this mess. Nothing like keeping a losing issue alive so that the Republican kick the crap out of them in November. They must be succumbing to Rove’s mind controlling machine.
Coakley hasn’t lost yet. Turnout is very heavy, and that usually means a Democratic win. If it’s a close Brown win, the machine can steal it for Coakley and save the Democrat’s agenda.
I for one hope that Brown not only wins, but wins BIG. If that were the case no amount of tinkering could change the results. As noted earlier if it is close the games will begin and Brown will lose no matter if he had the majority of votes or not. I will hold out hope for a landslide and some of the leaked memos from the Coakley camp seem to suggest this might take place.
Without Kirk as the 60th vote, I’m not sure they can. Seems to me, if Brown wins, this part of the 17th amendment ends Kirk’s Senate tenure immediately:
“When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.”