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  • Irreconcilable Reconciliation

    02/22/2010 6:10:19 PM PST · by eartotheground · 21 replies · 916+ views
    National Review ^ | January 22, 2010 | Robert Costa
    For Democrats, the medicine cabinet is mostly empty, save for “a poisonous pill called reconciliation,” says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.), the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, to National Review Online. That’s the Senate budget procedure enabling a bill to pass with 51 votes. As Democrats plot to keep Obamacare alive, they seem ready to pop that pill and “swallow the consequences,” says Gregg. Before they try, Gregg cautions that such a maneuver is, “procedurally, an extremely heavy lift in the Senate” and “unrealistic.” Democrats, he says, should “learn the lessons of Massachusetts, and stop playing by the...