Health Care Passes Despite Republican Attempted Coup:

If you were watching the run up to the vote on CSpan yesterday, you didn't get much of a flavor of the atmosphere in Washington, surrounding the vote and the Republican attempt to frighten legislators into voting against the bill.

Republican demagogues spent much of the day attempting to whip fury up among its racist followers, as reported by Dana Milbank of The Washington Post. The true colors of the so called "tea party" movement were on full display in the nation's capitol.

Note: Considerable concern existed that the margin of victory might be one vote, in which case every representative who voted in favor of the bill could claim that he or she was the margin of victory and entitled to special considerations. However, the bill passed with 219 yes votes, allowing the Democrats to avoid that issue.