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I have read plenty of op-eds and posts decrying the House/Pelosi "Slaughter solution" as an unconstitutional avoidance of a direct vote on the healthcare bill, and I've read plenty in recent weeks about how the Senate's proposed use of reconciliation runs afoul of that procedure's intended use. What I haven't seen is a discussion of how the combination of these two tactics is undeniably and appalingly unconstitutional. I think my logic and analysis on this is irrefutable. Please tell me if and how I'm wrong. Article I, Section 7 of the US Constituion lays out the process for a bill...

Ths isan amazing collage of Democrats arguing the death of Democracy if reconcilliation is ever to be used. It is very eye-opening. A must watch.

White House: If GOP Filibusters, We’ll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation!Please Filibuster, Make Our Day Mr. President, Please Make Our Day!

President Obama would no doubt be delighted if Republicans were to accept the basic outlines of the Democratic health-care proposal: new regulations on insurers, a mandate that everyone buy insurance, and subsidies to help them do so. All the evidence of the last year suggests that this type of bipartisanship — a Republican surrender — is the only kind in which he is interested. Since Obama knows full well that no such deal is possible, the real purpose of his health-care summit is political. He must think that the Democratic proposal will look better in comparison to Republican ideas. He...

MARYVILLE - At 6-feet-9 and 350 pounds, Jim Tull would be hard to miss, even if he weren't tattooed all over with fearsome symbols and messages of - to put it mildly - ethnic intolerance. To say that he dominates a room profoundly understates the situation. But a conversation with him reveals an apparent seam of gentleness that is sharply at odds with his outward persona. Tull talks about God and about the cable-channel storyline that has brought him from what he says was a life of hate and crime to a total submission to the will of the Lord....