WDEL News Listens to Rick Jensen Too Much
March 11th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
By Delaware Dem
WDEL, in its story on Carper’s not-shocking-at-all-to-anyone-paying attention announcement that Senate Democrats will be using reconciliation, WDEL wrote this:
Senator Carper says Democrats will be opting for a rarely used practice to push a health care reform measure through.
Rarely used?
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 11 March 2010 at 6:22 pm:
*sigh*
Comment by Nancy Willling on 11 March 2010 at 6:56 pm:
He is trying to keep up his cover for not allowing the public option to go through via reconciliation. He will try anything.
Comment by cassandra_m on 11 March 2010 at 8:09 pm:
I heard that story on with Carper talking about reconciliation and wondered why it was news TODAY.
Comment by Jason330 on 11 March 2010 at 9:17 pm:
LOUDELLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Nancy Willling on 12 March 2010 at 10:31 am:
There are details coming out that
a). McConnell is lying about what the parliamentarian told him (DKos) b). that this IS an unprecedented way to use reconciliation because it is switching horses mid-stream in the initial approach to the bill from a normal process to reconciliation (MSNBC Lawrence O’Donnell this morning)
and c). I believe that all of this is moot because as President of the Senate, Joe Biden has the authority to over ride the judgement of the parliamentarian and take this forward.
Comment by Real Deal on 14 March 2010 at 12:51 am:
In the same period there were about 200,000 bills. I would say that it is rarely used, and every time that it was used was for budgetary matters which is the purpose of it.