Weiner says the health care bill is "Dead" if Brown wins

Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) stated on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that if Scott Brown wins today’s election in Massachusetts, “you can make a pretty good argument that health care might be dead.”

State Senator Scott Brown (R) is facing off against State Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) in a special election to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.  Polls indicated a dead heat early last week, but late blunders by Coakley gave Brown a surge of 9 points in this past weekend’s pollings.

Brown has promised voters that, if elected, he will vote against the proposed health care reform when the reconciled House-Senate bill comes to vote again.  Coakley has said just the opposite.

A victory by Scott would take away the super majority of 60 votes needed to move forward without the chance of Republicans attempting to block the bill.

Democrats are making contingency plans in the case that Brown wins the election.  Those plans include the possibility of having the House vote on the Senate approved bill as is, something Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had previously said she is very much against.