Well, filibuster then.
so all this talk of reconciliation in the senate...does that mean they feel confident that they have enough votes to pass this in the house the way the president has written it..?? (i know a silly question right)
Vee exschpect you to rubber stamp zis legisaltion. You can give it to us freely, or vee vill take it by force. Choose quickly, schwein.
Go ahead bambi, make our day.
If the GOP ever gets a super majority, then should end-run around the Democrats from day one until they lose the super majority.
The summit seems to be a propaganda tool by Obama machine to paint the GOP as uncooperative. The MSM will be activist in promoting his talking points.
political suicide
I still don’t believe the Dems have the votes in the House for reconciliation. The Republicans should call their bluff. It’s a win either way. If it fails then we kill Obamacare. If reconciliation succeeds it will be an ever bigger bloodbath for the Dems in November and the Republicans can run on a platform of reversing the Obmacare legislation.
Starting out the Chicago Way. Thuggish threats.
Anyone surprised?
bellum civile
Please, please, please do this.
This is an open declaration that there will be no bipartisanship.
Balls in your court GOP.
Mr Odumbo,
that “up or down vote” sound brilliant but we know it doesn’t work when the representatives ignore the wishes of their constituents
and when backroom deals are struck to buy votes using billions of taxpayer dollars in earmarks...
we are not Chicago
If they want to commit political suicide they will. The Massachussetts senate election has put them on notice, and though the Dems in congress won't come out and say so, most of them received that message loud and clear.
I wonder how the conservative, and even moderate Democrats in Congress feel about Obama throwing them under the electoral bus in order to say HE ‘did something’ about health care? THEY are the ones who are going to feel the immediate heat, especially in November.
I don't often feel like dropping the f-bomb but this statement pulls my trigger.
FUBO.
Harry Reid, 2005:
“the nuclear option was the most important issue I’ve ever worked on in my entire career, because if that had gone forward it would have destroyed the Senate as we know it.”
Harry Reid 2008:
“What the Republicans came up with was a way to change our country forever,” Reid stated. “We would in fact have a unicameral legislature where a simple majority would determine everything that happens... the Senate was set up to be different. That was the genius, the vision, of our Founding Fathers.”
When former Democratic Majority Leader Tom Daschle asked what the likelihood was we would see the nuclear option come up again, Reid passionately reiterated his convictions. [emphasis mine]
“As long as I am the leader, the answer is no. I think we should just forget that. That is a black chapter in the history of the Senate. I hope we never, ever get to that again. I really do believe it will ruin our country.”