Conservatives growing uncomfortable with GOP blockade of 9/11 health bill #P2 #TCOT ok to fund tax cuts for wealthy but no help for 1st responders?! treasonous!

With Senate Democrats upping the pressure for passage of the bill giving health benefits to sickened 9/11 responders, it's going to get increasingly hard for GOP Senators to maintain their opposition. That's because even right-leaning commentators and political operatives are growing mighty uncomfortable with the Senate GOP's stance.

Case in point: This morning Joe Scarborough ripped into GOP opponents of passing the bill, which is called the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. He said Republicans were taking a big risk, and the crucial point Scarborough made is that this should be a national issue, not a New York one:

rest at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/12/conservatives_growing_uncomfor.html?wprss=plum-line