socialmedian: Nelson, Landrieu Giving CPR to Triggers

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Source: Daily Kos

Nov 04, 2009

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The crappy idea that just won't die is back, now courtesy Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu.

"There's a possibility that [triggers could make a comeback]," said Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE). "Right now, we don't know what the actual version of the plan is, because it hasn't come back from CBO...so I think when we get that back, we'll take a look and see what the scoring is, and maybe figure out what chance that plan has to get enough votes. My expectation is that it probably doesn't have enough to get 60 votes to get off the floor if it gets on the floor."

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"[I]n the event that there's not--that the reforms that we've put in place [don't create competition and drive down costs], then there could potentially be a trigger or a fallback position," Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) said this morning. "So that is kind of where [Olympia Snowe and I] are believing that we should reform the private market first, if the private market fails to reform, or refuses to reform, then there would be a fallback position."

Except, of course, a trigger isn't a fallback position. It's de

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