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Who You Gonna Call? Village Dems Go Wild In Support Of Senate Bill

By Big Tent Democrat

UPDATE: Pelosi says not enough votes for Stand alone Senate bill (meaning she needs a companion reconciliation fix, as her aides stated to the WaPo.) Josh Marshall's head explodes.See Greg Sargent for a measured response.

Village Dems and bloggers are going wild urging the passage of the Senate Stand Alone bill. Matt Yglesias called Raul Grijalva a "monster." Kevin Drum has his pitchfork out. Josh Marshall is melting down. Ezra Klein is suggesting "going Nader". But then Ezra Klein stumbled upon the sweet spot:

Will the more conservative Senate bill win over more conservative House members? [. . .] I'd just note that Nancy Pelosi has 40 extra votes in the House. That's no small number to play with. If you go back to the passage of the House health-care bill, a lot of the defectors were conservative Democrats. The Senate bill [. . .] is more conservative than the House bill. It spends less[,] abandons the public option, and so forth.

(Emphasis supplied.) Village Dems, if they want to be effective, have found their target - Blue Dog Dems. This Senate bill is a conservative, Blue Dog bill. They are the folks who might listen to the Village Dem appeal.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).