When Senate Pranks Go Awry: GOP proposes mandatory health care for themselves

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[Sister Artemis]

I've been enjoying this story all day long:

Huffington Post: Vitter, Coburn Public Option Bluff Called By Democrats
and
Washington Monthly: COBURN/VITTER PLAN GOES AWRY

Basically these anti-public option GOP senators introduced an unexpected amendment

"The idea, broad-brush, is that whatever government option is in the bill, every senator and every representative should be enrolled in it," Vitter told The Hill. "No other possibilities, no other choices."
    "It's called leadership," Coburn said. "If it's good enough for everybody else, we ought to be leading by example."

Sherrod Brown, and later Christopher Dodd, Barbara Milkulski, and Al Franken voiced their support for the idea and their desire to co-sponsor the amendment, which got the cold shoulder from their GOP brethren.

Punked!

[Gramiam]

I've been enjoying this story all day long:

Huffington Post: Vitter, Coburn Public Option Bluff Called By Democrats
and
Washington Monthly: COBURN/VITTER PLAN GOES AWRY

Basically these anti-public option GOP senators introduced an unexpected amendment

"The idea, broad-brush, is that whatever government option is in the bill, every senator and every representative should be enrolled in it," Vitter told The Hill. "No other possibilities, no other choices."
    "It's called leadership," Coburn said. "If it's good enough for everybody else, we ought to be leading by example."

Sherrod Brown, and later Christopher Dodd, Barbara Milkulski, and Al Franken voiced their support for the idea and their desire to co-sponsor the amendment, which got the cold shoulder from their GOP brethren.

Punked!

Poor doofuses just can't help shooting themselves in the foot over and over again.

[Forty Watt]

They thought that no Democrat would call their bluff?

I don't know whether that's because the Democrats have been wimpy about taking on the Republicans this way and/or because certain Republicans have so little empathy that they can't imagine anyone else wanting something that they don't want themselves.

Either way, good for Brown, Dodd, Milkulski and Franken.