Democrats in D.C. are faced with the harsh reality that to pass their "health care reform" bill they would need to enact the "reconciliation" procedure prevent the GOP from filibustering the vote. Their precious bill at stake, apparently disgracing themselves is not too tall of an order for Congressional Democrats.
For those who don't know, the Senate allows members to filibuster legislation. This means they can continue to the legislative debate indefinitely. It requires a super-majority to end debate on a bill (61 out of 100 votes). As long as debate proceeds, no vote can take place. If no vote takes place, no laws get passed.
Now, the purpose purpose here is to prevent a majority in the Senate from dominating the laws passed. The check and balance against this of course is that Senators must go home and face their consituents. If they filibuster every little thing, they will get thrown out of office. So the essence of the procedure is to raise the threshold or particular pieces of controversial law (ohhhh, say the health care bill for example). To all of us living in reality, this makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, Congress (particularly liberals) don't spend much time in reality.
During the Bush years when the GOP controlled Congress, the process of overiding the filibuster rule (which is designed to protect minorities) through reconciliation was damned repeatedly and even suggested it is "the end of democracy". Liberals on the Hill scorned the reconciliation process and dubbed it the threatening "Nuclear Option".
Of course, the political games never stop and the Democrats have changed their tune. They stopped calling it the "Nuclear Option" (inciting views of death and destruction) to reverted to its proper nomenclature: "Reconciliation" (kind, gentle, and compassionate). With a majority in hand, the liberals in Congress see nothing wrong with supressing the minority, stomping on their opinions, and laughing all the way to the bank.
The irony, arrogance, and hypocrisy is both laughable and depressing. You don't have to take my word for it. Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, et al and even the Big "O" himself deride the reconciliation procedure.
I wish they would just listen to themselves. Check out the video below.
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Excellent video - the hypocrisy of the media is perverse - they delighted in referring to "the nuclear option" during the Bush years, but you don't hear that phrase now - and at the same time, they grill Republicans about being "the Party of No" while five years ago the Democrats were just "the Loyal Opposition". The American people - many of us - know this and have known it for years. Without this perverse hypocrisy, there would be no Rush Limbaugh - and Rush is laughing all the way to the bank.
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