For anyone in doubt about the timeliness and importance of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, I offer this comment from the chairman of the Senate Health Committee concerning the state of play in the ”reform” negotiations on the eve of the special election:
We had an agreement, with the House, the White House and the Senate. We sent it to [the Congressional Budget Office] to get scored and then Tuesday happened and we didn’t get it back.
Those are the words of Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who was in on the negotiations, and they make it obvious that we were staring into the yawning abyss of Obamacare before Brown beat Coakley. Harkin claims they had a deal on the whole enchilada by January 15:
Harkin made clear that negotiators had reached a final deal on the entire bill, not just the excise plans, which had been reported the previous day, Jan. 14.
That’s how close we were to having Obamacare shoved up our down our throats before the Massachusetts miracle. If Coakley had won, Obama would have spent his entire SOTU speech gloating about the “historic” passage of his nanny-state abomination.
Just thinking about it gives me the willies.
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