Did the Senate Parliamentarian Just Kill Obamacare?

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[Eye of Unk]

I’m waiting for Obamas impeachable move, when he does something about Obamacare that is clearly illegal.

Something that will be whats needed to remove him from office.

[Bean Counter]

I’m watching Special report, and Charles Krauthammer just said that there is discussion among the Democrats of having Vice President Joe Biden, President of the Senate, over rule the Parliamentarian on this in order to pass Health Care.

I kid you not.

Charles says this would be a Thermo-Nuclear option if they did, but if it came to that it would still be harder than hell to revoke later on. In just a year or so there would be an almost irretrievably hopeless mess.

[Mr. Wright]

It is my understanding that Joe Biden, as President of the Senate, has the authority to overrule an decision of the Parliamentarian. Sadly, I don’t think this ruling has any chance of holding water.

[Senator_Blutarski]

I'm coming to believe that there has been a paradigm shift. The Democrat leadership is playing for long term gain, the short term be damned. The Democrat Party wins in the long term if Obamacare is passed. They are willing to sacrifice the 2010 election in order to own the future.

[sport]

I would not go as far as saying it is dead. The Democrats do not give a damn about the law.

A better question for us would be what are we going to do when they pass it.

If it had not been for that Republican bitch it would still be in committee.

[mware]

Can Joe Biden overrule this?

Krauthammer just referred to this as the thermonuclear option.