Posted on 09/09/2009 9:39:43 AM PDT by ianschwartz
"They can do it, but it certainly would be a destruction of the legislative process in the Senate," Gregg said during an interview on Fox News. "The purpose of reconciliation is to control the deficits and bring the budgets and spending in line."
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HAHAHAHA.....Sounds like we ought to do away with it then if it was supposed to control spending and deficits.....
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I hope the Reps will go Mutually Assured Destruction if the libs go Nuke, but they will probably ask if there is anything else the Dems would like to pass that way.....
There is NO valid, legitimate purpose to the reconciliation process. Both parties have used it, and both parties are wrong.
It should be scrapped. It’s past time to force the government back within the confines of their Constitutional authority and obligations.
“NO valid, legitimate purpose to the reconciliation process” WRONG is is to be used for budget issues.
Hehe.
Bernie Sanders refers to himself as a socialist, or, more precisely, "social-democratic."
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