Appearing on the Ed Show tonight, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was “wrong” when he appeared pessimistic about the chances of a public option making it through the Senate.
“We’ll get enough votes,” Brown said, citing bills that have passed through three House committees and the Senate HELP Committee with a public option.
Emanuel is “wrong, because of this: Not every Democrat right now would prefer the public option in the Senate … but no Democrat in the end is going to vote against a procedural question to kill the health care bill,” he said.
“The 60 Democrats will stay together on procedural questions and then, on final passage, some may vote against it because it’s got a public option. But I don’t see that,” he said. Brown added that at least 50 Democrats in the Senate support the public option.