Those victory champagne bottles are getting very warm and very flat.

In spite of having a 60-seat majority and several noodle-spined RINOS at his disposal, Senate Majority Leader Harry failed in spectacular fashion to invoke cloture and end debate (as if there has been any real debate) on S. 1776, the Medicare Physicians Fairness Act. (Read the bill at Thomas)

It is bad enough that he could not even get Snowe or Collins to jump over the fence for their usual legislative orgy sessions with the Dems, but the fact that he lost 11 of his own party members speaks volumes about how nervous even they are of this bill and concept. The 2010 elections are only 12+ months away and are only getting closer.

Voting breakdown:

Red State comments:

We, RedState readers, have defeated Harry Reid today and delivered a significant blow to the potential passage of Obamacare. We held every Republican Senator including Olympia Snowe and Richard Burr.

Harry Reid just ran to the Senate floor and cried that he cannot get enough votes to pass the doctors’ bribe to support Obamacare. He blamed the AMA for misleading him.

He might actually want to look to RedState. Our readers have generated hundreds and hundreds of phone calls in 24 hours to pretty much every Republican Senator. Several who had considered voting for cloture backed down.

Take that, Soros Moonies!

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