Just after the passage of the Health Care Bill version of the House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't too very confident that the Democrats have won their cause. Few days later, the Senate made an already anticipated decision of passing Upper House's own version of the controversial bill. As House Speaker Pelosi and Senate President Pro Tempore Byrd gets to reach their own house's decision, their problem is to put all together the two version so to have one version submitted to the President. But something's boggling both of the houses' leaders despite the victory of their causes in their respective houses; there is still something that lacks. Hence, with the race of the Massachusetts Special Elections, the cloud has been cleared.
Just this week, an unexpected result shocked not just the Washington but the rest of the country. Massachusetts has now a Senator to represent them in the Upper House. Senator Scott Brown won against Attorney General Martha Coakley, a democrat. The special election was held to fill in the seat the late Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy vacated. For about four decades, Massachusetts has been represented by a democrat.
However, there are some things that keep the current situation an ever confusing one. Covered by the noise of Brown's victory is the fact that the seat was vacated by Sen. Ted Kennedy. Kennedy played a major role in the creation and the passage of the present Health Care Bill and has championed every reform on health care in the past years. Unfortunately, Kennedy succumbed to cancer and passed away last year without seeing the bill signed by the President. If Brown's is said to filibuster the bill his predecessor championed, what could it imply? Could it be a good move?
With these twists, the promise of a Health Care reform is somewhat again shrouded with doubts as Brown is being viewed as a filibuster. With the republicans winning the Massachusetts seat, democrats – the party who persevered to the passage of the bill – are given slim chance of having the controversial Health Care Bill transmitted to the President's table.
Moving forward, many accounts point out that Brown has been using what have been Obama's campaign tag phrases and principles before in former's own race to the Senate. He has been heard talking about changing procedures in Washington and getting rid of "business as usual" things. His supporters in one instance clamored with the phrase "Yes we can!" as he delivers a speech. Another instance was just recently, when Time noted one of his supporters waving a signboard with inscriptions: "It's Our Turn For A Change." All these phrases has been the President's words used to win the White House and with Brown using it for his cause, it would seem that he is accorded to the Obama's guiding principles in governance.
Whatever happens to this bill is left not on Brown himself but on the rest of the Senators and Representatives as a whole. Politically thinking, Brown's a threat to the cause and that he will surely bring disaster for the hard worked bill. The only thing now that matter is that, the health care is not for Brown alone, it is no longer for Kennedy, it is not for the politicians in Washington, but for all Americans, whether just a middle class employee to the health care professionals in medical and
nursing scrubs. This thing should be of highest regard than anything else.
