Again, I didn’t get to ask everything I would have liked. For example, the delay of this bill has caused an immediate reduction in Medicare payments to doctors treating the elderly. Is it fair to say that Republicans cut Medicare again?

With that said, Hatch makes it clear that a filibuster will not hold; that other Republicans will join with Democrats to defeat Bunning’s hostage-taking gambit.

Now the question is: Why in the world hasn’t Harry Reid scheduled the cloture vote?