The purpose of the Dog and Pony show was to publically show that the Republicans are unwilling to work on the bill and that there is no middle ground to be had.
It paves the way for justifying reconcilliation
Why not just take it to a Vote?... Why the Coward's Path of Reconcilliation?...
peace...
it takes 60 in the senate to even get it to a vote....unless they do some fancy work...
they have 58... brown who took kennedy, and lieberman who is independent and going againt the bill...
if the vote were just a mere majority vote, it would have been done already imo....they would have just pushed it through from the get go....again, imo.