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To: sickoflibs
Looking at his archives I dont see him saying something similar when Obama-care was rammed through with budget reconciliation.

As I recall, it was rammed through without budget reconciliation.
They gutted another Bill that had passed reconciliation, replaced the contents entirely, and called it good.

All behind closed, locked doors.

And they called it legal, proper and Constitutional.

47 posted on 03/10/2011 10:49:25 AM PST by Publius6961 (There has Never been a "Tax On The Rich" that has not reached the middle class)
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To: Publius6961
RE :"As I recall, it was rammed through without budget reconciliation. They gutted another Bill that had passed reconciliation, replaced the contents entirely, and called it good"

I forgot all about that. They had to do that because the Senate was writing the new tax law that the constitution says only the house can. So the Senate used another DOA bill the house passed with taxes in it and replaced all the text and the title, to make it 'constitutional'.

In that case the house was historic for all the bills they passed. The MSM said only who wins counts, not how it was done.

54 posted on 03/10/2011 11:03:02 AM PST by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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