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Originally Posted by jimnaseum
Look for stage II of the "Good cop, bad cop" Obama administration, starting with the 50+1 reconciliation on Health Care. Watch Obama take the leash off Rahm Emanuel this election year. Democrats will take a hit this November, but by 2012 people will be going back to work. The Health Care Bill is Obama's Iraq War. If it is a success, he'll be a genius. If it is a disaster, he'll be an idealist fool. Send in Emanuel to make sure it works.
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If it is a success it will be the first time a government program is well managed and efficient. Besides... Obama wouldn't use reconciliation (or the nuclear option) to pass health care. That's against everything the democrats stand for.
Here BO calls the nuclear option...
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Originally Posted by Obama
... a change in the Senate rules that will change the character of the Senate forever. And what I worry about is that you would essentially have still two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side, and that's just not what the founders intended.
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Originally Posted by Harry Reid
The right to extend the debate is never more important than when one party controls the congress and the White House. In these cases the filibuster serves as a check on power, and preserves our limited government.
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Originally Posted by Joe Biden
This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. I say to my friends on the Republican side, you may own the field right now. But you won't own it forever. And I pray God, when the Democrats take back control, we don't make the kind of naked power grab you are doing.
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So I don't know why the prospect of Obama using the nuclear option, or reconciliation is even coming up.