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Rep. Paul Ryan on Reconciliation
National Review Online ^ | 1/21/10 | Robert Costa

Posted on 01/23/2010 5:38:19 PM PST by starczar66

Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, tells National Review Online that House Democrats are planning to use the budget-reconciliation process in order to pass Obamacare...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ma2010; obama; obamacare; reconciliation

1 posted on 01/23/2010 5:38:19 PM PST by starczar66
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There goes another 50 Democrat seats. I hope they keep trying for another few months. The country is going down the tubes and all these blithering idiots can talk about is Health Insurance?


2 posted on 01/23/2010 5:41:10 PM PST by screaminsunshine
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Wonder if they can get 51 votes these days


3 posted on 01/23/2010 5:41:18 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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Best news I heard if true. I wonder of they can pass the house?


4 posted on 01/23/2010 5:43:09 PM PST by scooby321
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To: starczar66

Geez, I can’t take anymore GOOD NEWS !

Keep Pushing, Ignorance is Bliss.


5 posted on 01/23/2010 5:43:18 PM PST by 4Speed
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This should really fire up the Tea Parties.


6 posted on 01/23/2010 5:44:06 PM PST by Wahoo82
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What? Slitting their wrists was not enough? So now they have to jump into shark infested waters too. If they push Obamacare through as a reconciliation bill, expect a political tsunami in November.


7 posted on 01/23/2010 5:44:49 PM PST by Sir Clancelot
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ROFL

I have NEVER seen a political party try so hard to lose.


8 posted on 01/23/2010 5:45:32 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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9 posted on 01/23/2010 5:47:15 PM PST by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org/)
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Then they are worse than we thought they were. Nothing but sleeze and crooks up there thinking about lining their own pockets. We shouldn not kick them out of office; we should make sure they get jail time for their corruption.


10 posted on 01/23/2010 5:47:16 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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There is NO WAY that they can pass this using the Budget Reconciliation process. The term reconciliation springs from the mechanism that's outlined in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 that allows for tax increases and expenditure reduction to be reconciled with previously passed legislation. In this instance, there is no previously passed legislation.

It would be impossible to expand medicare, for instance, because that wouldn't be an expenditure reduction, but an expenditure increase, therefor not allowed under the law. After the bill is scored by CBO - making the expenditure increase crystal clear, the House parliamentarian would strike that provision from the bill, gutting the bill.

Of course, these says nothing of the fact that Nancy wouldn't be able to manage 218 votes in her House, to say nothing of the 51 needed in the Senate. Obamacare is dead.

11 posted on 01/23/2010 5:49:29 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: Sir Clancelot
If they push Obamacare through as a reconciliation bill, expect a political tsunami in November

The tsunami would happen much earlier than that.

12 posted on 01/23/2010 5:49:55 PM PST by immadashell
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I truly hope they never come to their senses.

I still think it is possible for them to create the illusion that they've learned their lesson, have heard the people, and are going to concentrate on jobs from now on.

But after hearing Obamas recent speech, and reading this, it seems they have all signed a suicide pact.

Bless their tiny Alinsky-addled brains.

13 posted on 01/23/2010 5:56:21 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2434885/posts


14 posted on 01/23/2010 5:56:41 PM PST by Perdogg ("Is that a bomb in your pants, or are you excited to come to America?")
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If they do this, they will lose majorities in both houses and the first order of business will be repealing their so-called victories.


15 posted on 01/23/2010 6:05:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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They are totally owned by Soros and his surrogates.


16 posted on 01/23/2010 6:24:15 PM PST by clintonh8r (Nobody's 'bot!)
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DIM-oc-RATS: the party of “bend-over” policies. as in “here, bend over, you’ll like this”. A lot of Americans think NOT! Keep it u[p, you freakazoids.


17 posted on 01/23/2010 6:58:08 PM PST by hal ogen
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