In August, on MSNBC, Rep. Cooper clearly stated the reason he thought including a public option would kill health care legislation:
"Well, its really not an ideological question. It's a question of how you pass a bill. And the law is, in the Senate, it takes 60 votes. So how are we going to get to 60 votes? It's going to take some Republicans to do that."
As the above video shows, this wasn't a one-off statement. Jim Cooper repeatedly asserted all through the summer of 2009 that a "bipartisan" health care solution - one that would somehow win Republican votes - was necessary because Democrats did not have a sufficient number of votes to defeat a Republican filibuster in the Senate.
But now they do. And they appear to have the votes to pass the public option as well. Any Republican-only filibuster now will fail. And any successful obstruction would need to require the active participation of Democratic senators to deny an up-or-down vote on either the public option or the final legislation.
Cooper was very quick over the summer to try to use the political realities of the Senate as an excuse for talking down the chances of a public option and quixotically attempting to gain support for his own preferred bill (which did not include one). With Democrats now having the votes they need in the Senate to avoid a filibuster, will Jim Cooper now call for all Democratic senators to allow an up-or-down vote on the public option?
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