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Judd Gregg vs. Judd Gregg

by: Dean Barker

Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 20:09:48 PM EST
The GOP leadership must be getting desperate given their upcoming loss on trying to block health care reform.  Since Gregg's 2005 comments on reconciliation have (finally!) been getting nationwide play in print and on TeeVee, he has been shying away from his earlier, gobsmackingly hypocritical assaults on majority rule vote.

But today he was back at it:

Though, to be totally candid, in a way I have a kind of perverse admiration for Gregg's willingness to do what needs to be done to move the needle for this side, regardless of facts or consistency.  I don't think I have it in me, but it is nonetheless truly something to behold.
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just saw this on Rachel Maddow (0.00 / 0)
don't tell the new Judd Gregg that the old Judd Gregg was in favor of Reconciliation. Three-faced piece of work, at a minimum.  

'Aints no more
I wish this would be explained more thoroughly (4.00 / 1)
by the MSM.

The bill has already passed the Senate.  The House will vote on the bill by mid-March (hopefully), with the understanding that amendments to the bill will be considered by the Senate.  

No legislation is being passed through reconciliation.  None. Even if the Senate includes an amendment that introduces a public option, it is only as an amendment to the major legislative bill.  If it impacts the budget, which it assuredly does, the reconciliation process can be used.  

The Republicans with the complicity of the MSM are framing this as HCR being done through reconciliation.  It is not.  Reconciliation between the House and Senate bills may be done through reconciliation - exactly what it was designed to be for.

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

To reconcile means to bring two disparate parts into (0.00 / 0)
concert with each other so there are no internal contradictions in the final union.  It is, in essence, the very model of bi-partisanship.  Or you could say that people who were estranged become friends again.

Gregg, clearly, doesn't want to be friends.  He wants to continue to be an obstreperous show-off.  And, as we all know from back in elementary school, the show-off does it because it gets him attention.  Gregg is an attention hog.

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Let's understand something, here. (0.00 / 0)
Reconciliation is pure politics. You can't go after individuals on this issue, because there are too many that flip flop in this. It's part of Washington, people act differently in the minority. It's sad, it's frustrating, but it's true.

In 2005, Barack Obama was against it. In 2007, he said if you need 50+1 to pass a bill you can't govern.

Obama was against it before he was for it.
Biden was against it before he was for it.
Clinton was against it, but has no business commenting now.

Let's not paint Judd Gregg as the only politician in Washington, D.C. Both sides flip flop in this issue depending on who is using it.

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