If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote because I believe the debt can break America.... Joe Lieberman
The video below is Joe Lieberman stating clearly that if the public option is part of the senate bill, he will join Republicans and filibuster the bill.
Bob Graham, in speaking with "Face the Nation" has declared that the House bill, with the public option, is "dead on arrival to the Senate".
Graham argued that the House bill was "written for liberals, by liberals.
"Just look at how it passed; it passed 220 to 215. It passed by two votes. You had [39] Democrats vote against the bill," Graham told "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer Sunday.
He also admitted that if it were to come down to it, he would join his independent colleague Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in filibustering a bill including the so-called public option should it come to the Senate floor.
"The House bill is a non-starter in the Senate," he added. "I just think the construct out of the House and what exists in the Senate is not going to pass, and I hope and pray it doesn't because it would be a disaster for the economy and health care," Graham concluded.
The Politico explains the challenges of trying to move the Senate's version forward which by "congressional standards" the "feat is nearly impossible."
[Update] Senator Orrin Hatch echoes Graham in stating Pelosi's Obamacare, as written, will never pass in the Senate, via The Hill.
"That exercise in the House, that’ll never pass the Senate," Hatch said during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning" on the Fox Business Network.
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