Pelosi was quoted today as saying that the Dems need only 51 senators to pass ObamaCare and that the filibuster is immoral and unconstitutional.
Nancy is in her own universe. A more detached paranoid you could not find, unless we are talking about bammy. My understanding of a 51 vote majority is that it only requires 51 votes to overturn it. Think this would be very easy to do by 2012. Since none of the benefits of the plan are delivered for five years but the costs are billed in year one, don’t see how it ever ramps up to a working model.
Actually, all they can pass on 51 votes are the funding mechanisms, or fees and taxes. All the benefits would have to be subject to 60. This is why they have not done it yet. They are trying to create a way to make it palatable politically.