Max Baucus Health Care Alive! Rahm Emanuel Stripped Down Health Care: Emanuel Force Repubs to Vote on Health Care

On January 21st, Senator Max Baucus said about health care: "No way is it dead...we will find a way to pass it." Below the fold in a Politico article dated today, it was reported that Rahm Emanuel was hunkered-down, working on a stripped-down version of health care, in the hopes of forcing Republicans to vote. Friends, this is the Chicago-machine we're dealing with. It's not over till it's over. Update 1-22-10: Rush Limbaugh is reporting right now, that the reconciliation option, needing only 51 votes to pass health care, is on the table. Dems will be spending the next 4 or 5 days trying to figure out a way to get the legislation through.

From Politico 1-21-10:

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said, “No way is it dead, because it’s so important for the country. And we will find a way to pass [it].”

From Politico 1-22-10:

Emanuel, for his part, is now pushing for a stripped-down health care bill that could be passed within a few weeks and force Republicans, for a change, to take a few tough votes.

Can Rahm Emanuel resurrect a stripped-down version of ObamaKare, and foist it on us - the incredibly naive public who thinks the legislation is dead, done and over?

Can Emanuel craft a bill that guilts Republicans into reaching across the aisle, and force their hands on their oft-mentioned desire for some version of health care, just not Obama's version?

Can there be a plan, with backdoors and loopholes not easily seen in a health care bill designed to sucker Republicans, and save the President's badly tarnished image - battered ego, and diminished credibility?

Just sit back, close your eyes and imagine such a bill. When the image is burned into your conscience, pick up the phone and call your representative and senator.