(Repeat after me: Bad Faith Republicans are not needed to pass health insurance legislation. Bad Faith Republicans are not needed to pass health insurance legislation. - promoted by Dean Barker)
Or so said Ralph Waldo Emerson in a thought now embraced by his present day acolyte, Senator Judd Gregg, who in the halcyon days of Republican Supremacy thought that the use of the reconciliation process to thwart filibusters by the minority was just fine, thank you:
Reconciliation is a rule of the Senate set up under the Budget Act. It has been used before for purposes like this on numerous occasions. The fact is, all this Rule of the Senate does is allow a majority of the Senate to take a position and pass a piece of legislation, support that position. Is there anything wrong with majority rule? I don't think so.
That would be the Chicago approach to governing: Strong-arm it through," said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who briefly considered joining the Obama administration as commerce secretary. "You're talking about the exact opposite of bipartisan. You're talking about running over the minority, putting them in cement and throwing them in the Chicago River."
