Typical – they can’t pass the horrid bill through normal legislative channels, so rather than face defeat they will use a tactic normally reserved for cutting the deficit. How ironic – they’ll use a tactic for deficit reduction to increase the deficit in perpetuity.
According to the New York Times the democrats haven’t ruled out using the nuclear option.
With bipartisan health care negotiations teetering, Democrats are talking reluctantly — and very, very quietly — about exploiting a procedural loophole they planted in this year’s budget to skirt Republican filibusters against a health care overhaul.
They are talking reluctantly because using the tactic, officially known as reconciliation, would present a variety of serious procedural and substantive obstacles that could result in a piecemeal health bill. And they are whispering because the mere mention of reconciliation touches partisan nerves and could be viewed as a threat by the three Republicans still engaged in the delicate talks, causing them to collapse.
Yet with the discussions so far failing to produce an agreement, Democrats are exploring whether they could use the tactic as a last resort to secure a health care victory if they have to go it alone. The answer: It would not be pretty and it would not be preferable, but it could be doable.
“This is tough stuff,” said Senator Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota and chairman of the Budget Committee, “but, yes, it is more than theoretically possible.”
In other words, they’re going to ram this through no matter what. No matter that the more the American public finds out about it the more they oppose it. Maybe it’s all the socialized health care horror stories we keep hearing about. On Sunday the Telegraph UK reported that Britain’s NHS has decided to slash the number of injections they will allow for treating chronic pain. This decision will cause thousands of Brits to live in agony, yet this is the model the democrats want to follow. Anyone who doesn’t believe the US will ration care in the same way is delusional.
sweet, smokin’ Judas.
these [expletives deleted] folks need some serious lessons in humility. i’m amazed that our politicians have become such backstabbing, conniving, lowbrow demigods who seem to want us to think this isn’t about power, but about how they believe they know what’s best for us.
the frightening part is how many people continue to believe them.
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