Both Tim Griffin and Blanche Lincoln are taking great pains to oppose a procedure (used often before, more often by Republicans) that is being discussed — but not yet decided — for House passage of the Senate health bill. This no-longer-so-strange bed fellowship tells you just about all you need to know about both of them. They both oppose health reform and the end of insurance company discrimination against sick people.

Here’s a more honest description of the vote procedure than you’ll get from either Griffin or Lincoln.

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There would be a House vote on the bill under this procedure, despite what Lincoln would have you believe. And what she won’t tell you is that this procedure is required because you can’t get a vote on anything in the Senate. Is she beating up her Senate Republican brethren for this state of affairs? She is not. She just says No. Just like good Republcan Griffin.

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