Posted on 02/26/2010 11:41:44 AM PST by pissant
Chris Matthews Thursday said that if the Senate doesn't use reconciliation -- or what some are calling the "Nuclear Option" -- to pass healthcare reform after it once again clears the House, it will be the end of the Democratic Party.
Speaking with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC during the lunch recess of the President's heathcare summit, Matthews said:
Do you have to get a bill passed before you fix it through reconciliation? Probably yes. Which means Speaker Pelosi is going to have to get 217 votes with the agreement that right after that happens and the President signs the Senate bill passed by the House there is immediately going to be reconciliation in the Senate which rectifies all the problems they have with that bill.
Mitchell replied, "You're asking the House members to vote on something on the bet that the Senate will follow through."
"It's more than a bet," said Matthews. "Because if the Senate doesn't do it it's the end of the Democratic Party" (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript, h/t Story Balloon):
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More likely, it’s the end of them if they do.
It’s over for them either way.
I just got a tingle up my leg.
I wouldn't want to be a democrat politician just now...well ever, but now is particularly bad.
Either way, I will be drinking beer and lighting fireworks long into the late evening and early morning.
Is there 217 votes in the House? If not isn’t all this reconciliation talk a moot point?
Sounds ALMOST as good as the end of Priss Mathews.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s the end of them if they do try and ram it through. Actually it is the end of them period. They are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Obozo is a millstone around their necks.
Oh but if it would be true... coming from Matthews, it won’t be of course. The DNC is nothing better than a criminal enterprise and should be dissolved, its leaders tried and its members charged.
And hanged
He's has it the other way round.
It’s the end of the Democratic Party if they pass this 0bamacare abomination.
And..we will reverse it in 2013 anyway. They lose either way.
It’s the END either way, Chrissy...either way!
We can only hope.
ALSO ...
It’s The End of the Democratic Party’ If Senate Does Pass Healthcare Via Reconciliation
Conclusion:
It’s The End of the Democratic Party
BULLSTALIN
It would be an END to the Socialist Party control of the Democrat Party. The 1968 radicals who now run things would see their last hurrah go down in flames and saner heads could rise up in the Party.
Ignore the Left Wing Extremists in your Party. Expose them as the Reds they are. They are a disgrace to this nation.
“Which means Speaker Pelosi is going to have to get 217 votes with the agreement that right after that happens and the President signs the Senate bill passed by the House there is immediately going to be reconciliation in the Senate which rectifies all the problems they have with that bill.”
Yeah, how will Pelosi get 217 votes for that taxpayer-funded abortion garbage?
When Stupak and 10 others and Cao and others who voted yes before are NO votes?
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