This means he’s afraid he doesn’t have enough Democrat support to overcome a potential filibuster.
What a moron jerk.
What do they think will happen next year I wonder?
He’s like the schoolyard bully. I won, so take that!
I HATE his evil more and more each day.
Isn’t Marxism great? The voters sure screwed the pooch in November. The voters have proven that they are not as smart as the Obamedia keeps telling us they are.
If the republicans had done this the media would have called it “the nuclear option” or something similar. I think we need to come up with a snappy nane for thes.
The genocidal option
The final solution
The Chavez gambit
Isn’t a majority required, ie. 51 votes in a 100-person body? Or does he have to cheat at every opportunity? Why does the Senate have a rule like that?
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Obama's 6th week in office:
*Obama may use 50-vote tactic on energy, healthcare President Obama’s budget director said the White House would consider using a Senate procedural tactic so that only 50 votes would be rquired to pass major healthcare and energy reforms. Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, ... "We have to keep everything on the table."
Because they can not be filibustered, budget reconciliations only require 50 votes to pass the Senate.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obama-considers-50-vote-strategy-on-energy-healthcare-2009-03-01.html
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God give us the strength to take back the reigns of government from these quislings...starting in 2010 and finishing the job in 2012.
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This clown is even worse than what was originally feared.
Well, this is going to be rich...Obama’s going to order Harry Reid around on which Senate rules to follow and which ones to chuck. And I seem to remember that Reid and his Rats screamed bloody murder when Republicans wanted to use simple majority votes back in the day.
Note how big health care figures in this.
He will use the current crisis as a smoke screen to take over 15% of our GDP, and the remaining 60% of health care that is outside of direct government control.
Soon, we will owe our lives to self-appointed committees who will ration treatment and care. They will, literally. decide who lives and who dies.
The quicker he fails the better for us.
Once again the Democrat Party shows Republicans how to wield power.
The Stupid Party.
We’ll see how the MSM reports this compared to when the Stupid Party hinted at using the “Nuclear Option”. My guess is they’ll call it a “brilliant plan to get things done” this time around.
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Isn’t this a violation of the separation of powers? I know the president advises members in Congress, but this article makes it sound like Obama is calling all the shots and the Senate just has to follow suit.
Thank goodness Robert Byrd has started seeing the light and is beginning to stand up.
Bait and switch: The voters elected Obama. They actually got Hugo Chavez.