04 March, 2010

undestanding reconciliation

The republican underlying "principle" seems to be that it's fine to pass tax cuts for the wealthy on narrow votes in reconciliation but an outrage to use reconciliation to help middle-income and poor people get health insurance.

It's not just legitimate to use reconciliation to complete the work on health reform. It would be immoral to do otherwise and thereby let a phony republican argument about process get in the way of health coverage for 30 million Americans.

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