OK, Dingy Harry Reid (can’t call him “Dirty Harry” because that handle is reserved for someone pursuing an honorable goal by questionable means) got his 60 votes under cover of darkness to move the Senate’s fetid healthcare charade to debate and toward a final vote to passage. But Rich Lowry at National Review Online has come up with five (5) reasons it still may be stopped.

1. Public revulsion. As the Wall Street Journal says in it’s editorial today, this is Change Nobody Can Believe In. Polls find somewhere around 57% of the public is opposed and prefer Congress do nothing rather than what they are doing.

2. Taxpayer Funded Abortion. The House bill contained the Stupak Amendment which withdraws public funding of abortion. The Nelson compromise contained in the Senate bill is only a small sop to those opposed to public financed abortions. When Barbara Boxer supports it you know that it does not really stop public funding of abortion. This will cause a fight in the House because many of the blue dogs are from districts that will be up in arms over the Senate version of forcing people opposed to abortion to pay for the abortions of others.

3. Difference in Financing Between The Senate Bill and the House Bill. The differences in the sort of new taxes tht are in each bill sets up a conflict between taxpayers and unions. This could produce a fight over who gets socked with the worst of the new tax bites.

4. Blue Dogs. Blue Dog Democrats are supposed to be conservative Democrats, or at least they used to be. These days the emphasis in not on “Democrat” and not “Blue Dog.” They grumble and complain but in the end they are Democrats first and Blue Dogs second, or perhaps last. Nevertheless, in 2010 they will be feeling the heat from their constituency a little more and will have to think about how bad do they really like being in Congress.

5. The Looney Left. The Looney Left hate this bill as much as conservatives, Republicans and Tea Party protesters. Whether this will make a difference, however, remains to be seen. Democrat politicians know something about the loonies that the loonies themselves don’t know, or admit. That is, Dem Pols can send an up-raised finger right in the eye of the looney left and they are still going to turn out on election day and they are still going to vote for Democrats. So when they get upset the politicians can safely ignore them. See Moe Lane at Redstate who thinks the whacked-out left can’t be relied on to do more than whine.

This is my paraphrase of Rich Lowry’s five reasons the bill might still be stopped but you really must read it all for yourself, right here.

Dan Perrin at Redstate has four (4) more reasons, in addition to Rich Lowry’s five, to be optimistic that this depraved, putrid legislation may yet be stopped:

6. Illegal Aliens. The Senate bill bans (maybe) free health care for anyone in the country illegally. The Hispanic caucus probably won’t support that. This would lose some votes for the bill in the House.

7. Objection to Conferees. A single GOP Senator could throw a monkey wrench into the whole process by objecting to the appointment of conferees. Just have to find one with the cojones to do it.

8. The House bill passed 220-215. That is a small margin of error. If Madam Pelosi loses 3 of those votes it doesn’t pass the House.

9. The Looney Left Wakes up to How They Have Been Dissed by Their Almost-But-Not-Quite-As-Looney Fellow Democrats. They’ve been snookered and ignored on everything so far. At some point the battered wife calls the cops.

I’ve only paraphrased Dan Perrins’, additional four reasons this gawd-awful bill might yet be stopped. Please go here to read it for yourself.