The "world's greatest deliberative body" is patting itself on the back for coming up with a filibuster-proof majority...to allow a floor debate on the health care bill. Wow, what an achievement. So now will we get to watch these great orators square off on this huge societal issue? Don't hold your breath.
The debate will devolve quickly into squabbles on deficit economics, abortion subsidies and whether or not illegal immigrants get care. But the BIG issue is the question that even the Democrats dare not articulate (except Wiener and Grayson in the House and Sanders in the Senate). The BIG issue is unfortunately a moral one. I am not usually a moralizer, but health care just has to be debated in this context.