"Reconciliation on health care would be an assault to the democratic process

By Orrin Hatch
Tuesday, March 2, 2010; A15



America's Founders gave us a system of governance designed to limit government power and maximize liberty. The legislative branch is different from the executive, and the Senate is different from the House. No single branch has all the power. That can be frustrating for those with ambitious agendas, but everyone benefits by respecting those checks and balances even as we fight over policies.

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But the Constitution intends the opposite process, especially for a bill that would affect one-sixth of the American economy.

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Reconciliation was designed to balance the federal budget.

more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030102754_pf.html

Scott Brown wins the election, and says he will be that 41st vote, so Obama (and other libDems) pull out the reconciliation card.

"Obama, Biden, Clinton, Dodd & More Believe Reconciliation is Unconstitutional
by  Human Events

02/24/2010


The Obama White House has recently announced that they will go forward with a reconciliation process -- sometimes called the “nuclear option” -- to try and pass their government run healthcare plan in the Senate. This process circumvents a Republican filibuster and only requires a simple majority vote of 51 rather than 60.

What did top Democrats think of this process previously?"

(And since Schumer is up for reelection this year, I've got to post this

"Charles Schumer 5/18/2005: “We are on the precipice of a crisis, a constitutional crisis. The checks and balances which have been at the core of this Republic are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances which say that if you get 51% of the vote you don’t get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing it’s almost a temper tantrum."

Read the rest: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35779&page=4&viewID=1334994

dirty little word called "lawmakers"----it never applies to them.....they change the rules when ever and then even go back in time and say:

.......now that the rules are changed in the present then it must be true for the past......

if P then Q????? I dont think so.....it's just The Joker with some gumba gangstas and extortion ad nauseam.......

Rush explained it well on his Wed. show:

"RUSH: This whole reconciliation route, it's a confusing term because the actual term is "BUDGET (emphasis mine) reconciliation," and it is an exception to the 60-vote requirement in the Senate, which is a Senate rule, a long-standing Senate rule, and it is used only for items that have BUDGETARY (emphasis mine) consequences because the CONSTITUTION REQUIRES THAT (emphasis mine). So they made an exception to the 60-vote rule."

Schumer will win.  End of story.  As will Cuomo.  When Schumer made that statement FIVE years ago, it was dead on.  Remember at that time we were all being held hostage by a madman in the White House.

Some people would call the current occupant a "mad man" - hell bent on destruction of his party, despite polls and citizen protest of the bill's he's jamming down everyone's throats.