‘Stupak dozen’ is now a half-dozen holdouts

That’s good news. In re: ditching deem and pass—

Van Hollen said Democrats still maintain that deeming the Senate bill passed would have been appropriate and perfectly legal. But, he said, “there was no reason to allow the misinformation campaign to continue. Despite the fact that Republicans used it, we wanted to make the process absolutely clear.”

Obv they feel confident they have the votes, but I wonder how much of that new determination is due to a backlash over the GOP hoax memo from yesterday that ran through the rightwing puke funnel, from Breitbart to Drudge to Powerline to NRO to Daily Caller, Politico, etc,. and which Boehner’s office was pushing to several of those outfits.

Looks like the pukefunnel might have helped out for once. Cheers, wingnuts!