GOP: Dems are bluffing, don’t have the votes

Published March 19, 2010 4:00am ET



House GOP whip Rep. Eric Cantor has sent out a brief memo outlining the health care vote count from the Republican perspective. The best way to look at it is not to ask whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gotten the 216 votes needed to pass the Democrats’ national health care bill, but whether opponents have the votes to defeat it.

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