Comments on: Just Pass It With Reconcilliation Already And Get On With It http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/02/26/just-pass-it-with-reconcilliation-already-and-get-on-with-it/ Clear political commentary | Debate | Humor and Sports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Biggus Rickus http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2010/02/26/just-pass-it-with-reconcilliation-already-and-get-on-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-22719 Biggus Rickus Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:48:05 +0000 http://www.thesunshineempire.com/?p=3583#comment-22719 The pledge to televise negotiations was dumb, because backroom deals and the like are how bills get passed. That the Republicans took advantage of Obama's silly rhetoric was just good politics. So Obama tried to thorw it back at them and look like the reasonable statesman, and he failed by all accounts. And really, who was taking this seriously at all? Obama rolled out an alternate bill while Democratic leadership in the Senate was talking about reconcilliation on the current bill in the leadup. It was obviously poltiical theatre. There's not some collusion on proper spin between the Republicans and and the scare-quoted liberal media. Also, another option would be to shelve the bill rather than pass it with reconcilliation. I don't think there are the votes in the House to pass it anyway, so if they want to go ahead and piss more people off, I don't mind. The pledge to televise negotiations was dumb, because backroom deals and the like are how bills get passed. That the Republicans took advantage of Obama’s silly rhetoric was just good politics. So Obama tried to thorw it back at them and look like the reasonable statesman, and he failed by all accounts. And really, who was taking this seriously at all? Obama rolled out an alternate bill while Democratic leadership in the Senate was talking about reconcilliation on the current bill in the leadup. It was obviously poltiical theatre. There’s not some collusion on proper spin between the Republicans and and the scare-quoted liberal media.

Also, another option would be to shelve the bill rather than pass it with reconcilliation. I don’t think there are the votes in the House to pass it anyway, so if they want to go ahead and piss more people off, I don’t mind.

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