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The Limits Of Reconciliation, Then And Now

March 10, 2010 - 1:26 pm - by Ed Driscoll

From Naked Emperor News, “Uncovered Shocker: Sen. Byrd Single-Handedly Stopped President Clinton From Using Reconciliation,” according to a speech that Byrd gave on the Senate floor in 2001:



As for today? Ed Morrissey asks, “Does Obama have to sign Senate bill into law before reconciliation can happen?”

Meanwhile, as David Harsanyi notes, if the current efforts and Rahming through ObamaCare suceeds, its repeal is unlikely not matter what sort of gains the GOP has in the fall, part of the strategy the left is counting on.

Filed under: Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal, Liberal Fascism, The Future and its Enemies, The Memory Hole, The Return of the Primitive

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  1. 1. Soloman

    Interesting.. most of the logical discussion from the right has been about exactly Senator Byrd and his disdain for the Rahming type of behavior.

    I linked you at Wisdom Of Soloman

    March 10, 2010 - 6:45 pm   Link to this Comment