Christmas Eve vote long ovedue!

After much debate and several delay tactics by the Republicans in the Senate, a vote on the health care bill is scheduled for Christmas Eve. According to Harry Reed, they have the votes to pass the much watered-down bill before Christmas. Apparently the approaching holiday has lessened the Republican resolve.
Since the bill has been on the floor the Republicans have used various delay tactics. They even delayed vote on the much needed military budget in order to further delay the Health care debate. To many, this revealed obvious hypocrisy on their part, considering the military is considered to be of paramount importance. Even the democrats who oppose the war, seen it necessary to get the troops the funding they need.
Finally, after negotiations with who I call the "pork junkies" to get to 60 votes, the bill will finally pass the Senate. (The pork junkies are the conservative democrats who held out on the bill in order to get pork for their respective states, like Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.) However, the bill lost the public option and the medicare by-in for people over 55. Despite such key loses, many of the Senate leaders still maintain that the bill still has redeemable qualities, such as an expansion of medicaid. The claim this bill will cover 30 million more people. Still others on the far left claim this bill is just a hand out to insurance companies. I find it revealing the only the elements that benefited the insurance companies survived this process.
Hopefully, the public option will survive reconciliation. However many of the pundits doubt it. Special interests killed the democratic process. I am growing cynical of the democratic process. I think we need some internal reform. Most of the country was in favor of the public option, however fearmongering done by the Right, had so much misinformation circulating that many ill-informed people got scared.