General Discussion

for an indeterminate period of time. No one is losing their current health insurance for six weeks and I don't see the repubs caving on SNAP or federal pay or firings and air travel for those six weeks.

Are you prepared to let people suffer a lack of food and an inability to pay their rent or mortgage for six more weeks with no assurance that at the end of that will get a restoration of the health care subsidies? We have six week to make the case -- without starving people or having them be unable to pay rent or mortgage -- to push for health care reform -- maybe a one year extension of the existing subsidies, which is probably the most the Repubs would agree to and I have my doubts about that.

I suspect more than just eight senators are privately relieved that a deal has been struck and that they didn't have to publicly support it because doing so would get them labelled RINOs, traitors, sell-outs etc etc.