MoveOn Screams about a GOP Senate using Reconciliation Forgets that's how Dems passed Obamacare

[teapartysamurai]

This is typical of liberals. It's ONLY OKAY when they do it. If YOU do it, then somehow, that's just soooooooooo unfair.

I’ve been telling myself that the election doesn’t much matter since whoever’s in the minority will still have enough votes to filibuster legislation, but it turns out there’s a shady maneuver on the books called “reconciliation” that would allow Senate Republicans to pass any sort of fiscal legislation they liked with just 51 votes. Sure, Obama would just veto whatever landed on his desk, but that’s not the point. The point is, 51 votes. Can you imagine what sort of world-changing, paradigm-shifting legislation a GOP majority might pass if it were suddenly able to skirt the onerous 60-vote obstacle?

Turns out history for the left didn’t begin on January 20, 2009 but rather in April 2010 or thereabouts. In fact, the ObamaCare omission here is so egregious, it reminds me in an odd way of those creepy liberal revisionist histories in which JFK somehow ends up dead at the hands of the right-wing city of Dallas while his left-wing assassin is conveniently airbrushed into oblivion. They used reconciliation to pass what’s arguably the most momentous piece of domestic policy of the past 50 years, and now, the instant Republicans use it for anything, the tactic will be deemed de facto cheating — despite endless leftist screeching since 2009 that we should probably go ahead and jettison the archaic 60-vote threshold for cloture entirely. You keep smiling, guys.

Scary news from MoveOn If Republicans win the Senate they might use a dubious procedure known as 8220 reconciliation 8221 Hot Air

So, Republicans might use continuing resolution???

Oh how awful. That's just not fair. But Oh, wait a minute. ISN'T THAT WHAT DEMOCRATS DID TO PASS OBAMACARE???

Yep, it sure was!

This is TYPICAL leftist hypocrisy. It's always "IT'S OKAY WHEN I DO IT, IT'S NOT OKAY FOR YOU!"

This is part of their arrogance and self righteousness. They are part of the "good guys." They are on the side of "right." So, what they do "for your good" is okay.

But Republicans are eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil. So, if Republicans use the same tactics, then that must be eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil too!

Doesn't get more obvious, than this.

 

[rightwinger]

Its also how Bush got his tax cuts

 

[DriftingSand]

Its also how Bush got his tax cuts

Glad SOMEBODY got us some tax cuts. I'm going to have to take out a loan to pay them this coming year.

 

[teapartysamurai]

Its also how Bush got his tax cuts

Then you agree, if Democrats can do it, so can Republicans.