Scott Brown On House Health Care Bill: “The Biggest Problem…Is Its Lack Of Transparency”

Last night when Chris Matthews discussed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s idea of a “Deem and Pass” to get the health reform bill pushed through Congress, his main concern was that it would open up Democrats to criticism that they were being a little bit sneaky and evasive in their effort to get this whole health care matter settled. And he wasn’t wrong: Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was on The Situation Room tonight, already chomping at the bit to discuss the “backroom deals….political chicanery and parliamentary maneuvers” that the House majority was using to “ram this bill through.”

Brown’s being a little evasive himself here: Saying at one point that he can only speak for himself, and not what all Senate Republicans will do, and then threatening in the very next breath that “You’re going to get a health care bill that’s going to be challenged potentially by the Attorney Generals in the state on it’s constitutionality.” Not that he has an opinion one way or another about it.

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