Other than it will destroy the Senate it’s a bad idea for our republic. We do not want to turn into a authoritarian majority democracy like Venezuela.
The progressives have already taken out the States with the 17th Amendment — and the unfunded mandates never seem to stop.
If they do indeed to go to the so-called nuclear option, they'll just pass the original House bill because Rule 22, also known as the filibuster, would be ended with a parliamentary maneuver.
The Dems might try Budget Reconciliation, but they aren't going to go Nuclear.
If the Democrats hold a vote on a Senate health care reform bill and they pass it with less than 60 votes, then the outcome is illegitimate. The bill needs 60 votes to pass.
Republicans need to be unified in getting this message out to the American public and the public needs to make sure to contact Democrats who can be persuaded that it’s in their best interest to not participate in such an illegitimate process. They need to know that there is a very good chance they’ll be kicked out of office this November if they go along with their Democrat leaders in this corruption.
The whole thing from the bill itself to how it gets passed using reconciliation will get ripped to shreds in the courts as unconstitutional.
Brett: Will the House vote to pass the Senate Bill?Charles K: (hesitatingly) Yes.
Brett: And then does it get through?
Charles K: No - Stopped in the Senate.
Well I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be lecturing Krauthammer on the working of the U.S. Congress but I am shocked at his answer. In fact I'm shocked at Brett's question. Neither seems to realize that if the House votes for the Senate Bill it goes to the White House for Obama's signature and it becomes LAW. It really doesn't matter what the Senate does after that. The Reconciliation Bill just changes elements of the Senate Bill. If those changes aren't made the Senate doesn't care and Obama doesn't care - he'll settle for the Senate version of the bill and be quite happy.
Senator Judd Gregg compared the current Democratic effort to those undertaken in the past "is like comparing using a firecracker with a nuclear weapon...[the Democrats' health-care bill is] an exercise in changing 16 percent of the American economy."