Rachel is completely irrelevant to the facts here.
Reconciliation is not intended for anything other than budget. You know it, everyone else knows it. and it's completely dishonest to pretend that Rachel is the issue when no one cares what she says.
And THAT is the point. It is constitutional when used for budgetary matters. It is unconstitutional when used to legislate. What is hard with that?
I was under the impression that reconciliation can be used as long as it fits certain budgetary parameters. There are hoops they have to jump through to make it work but as long as they do so it's a legit use of it.
Sadly, it has come to this and I don't like it. It is clear the Republicans intend on continuing to demand concessions from the dems while at the same time being unwilling to support any compromised bill.
They are using Scott Boras negotiating techniques ...
If the GOP were really intersted in anything other than killing health care reform we wouldn't be where we are right now.
How do you compromise on destroying this country through taxation and regulation? We'll give half the economy today, tomorrow we'll bargain for the rest?
The GOP is interested in HCR. THey have floated plans for this. They have published those plans. They have done all this despite their inability to get any legislation heard, much less passed. They have done it despite Obama's lies that they didn't. And he never acknowledged that even after it was pointed out to him publicly.
The Dums could pass anything they wanted for the last year. It isn't the GOP's fault they can't. Blaming them is just deflecting attention away from the fact that every proposal the Dums have pushed has been a disaster and opposed by a majority of Americans.