Once they break the reconciliation rule the rule is broken for good and the rule of the simple majority will become the new standard in the senate. In their fever to pass a flawed and unpopular health care bill Democrat leaders are creating the very precedent future simple Republican majorities will use to enact their own legislative wish list.
Prudent heads within the Democratic Party should be providing this counsel to their colleagues. Has it not occurred to them that the action they are rashly preparing to take will surely come back to bite them? By their own legislative greed they are setting the stage for a new Republican majority to pass legislation roughshod over the soon to be Democrat minority as soon as 2013.
Democrats would be wise to lay off the health care bottle and sober up. Republicans on the other hand may simultaneously express outrage while they quietly prepare their own future senate “to do” list.
Scott Armstrong