Massachusetts Democrat congressman to vote no on healthcare reform

This is a mobile post, I will correct any formatting issues, if there are any, later tonight.

I was listening to Boston talk radio this morning and I heard an interview with Massachusetts Democrat congressman Steve Lynch– one of the more sensible Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature, who would have been a much better candidate for senator than Martha Coakly turned out to be, if he had decided to run–and he has announced that he will vote against the healthcare reform bill. This is a loss for Nancy Pelosi, as he voted in favor of the House version of the bill.

He is still in favor of passing the House version of the bill, but he thinks that the Senate version is seriously flawed and actually contains no reform in it. He is unwilling to use “deem and pass” to pass this bill without voting on it as he believes the Senate cannot be trusted to pass the fixes that the House will propose in order to “deem” the bill to be “passed.”

His reason? He claims that there are currently over 290 bills that the House has already passed that have gone nowhere in the Senate. He believes that this bill could just be thrown on the stack where it will linger as has almost every other piece of legislation that the House has passed. This would make the Senate version– which he calls a bad bill– the law.

He also said that he would never insult the intelligence of his constituents by claiming he didn’t vote for healthcare, he only voted to allow “deem and pass” be used to pass the bill without voting on it. And that is what these Democrats are trying to use as cover in the upcoming election, it is good to know there are some in congress who do not think the American people are too stupid to realize that a vote for “deem and pass” is actually a vote for healthcare reform.

I have to wonder how many more Democrats there are in the House that feel the same way as Steve Lynch, there has to be more of them, it is too hard to believe he is the only one that actually thinks his constituents know what is going on. In the end, people like Steve Lynch may be our only chance to stop this bill.