Word: filibusterer
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The second bill passed by the House late Sunday will make adjustments to the legislation, such as lowering the impact of an excise tax on high-value insurance plans and stripping out some sweetheart deals like the now infamous cornhusker kickback, using a process known as budget reconciliation. Such changes...
But as often happens on Capitol Hill, the reasoning on both sides is dubious. Many Dems' insistence that the maneuver would help them gain political cover in the 2010 election season doesn't make much sense; it's not as if Republicans won't hammer House Democrats over health reform...
Dodd is right that he can't try to shimmy past a filibuster in an election year by cobbling together 59 Democrats and a Republican; it's probably hopeless, and certainly hopeless without cutting unsavory deals like the toxic Cornhusker Kickback on health care. But weakening the bill won't...
And though Specter promised not to be a rubber stamp for his new party, he has since shifted leftward into its mainstream. He went from opposing a government-run public option on health care to supporting one and from voting for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to urging...
But a year later, those calculations have been tossed upside down. Obama's poll numbers have come back to earth. And the filibuster-proof Senate majority that Specter's defection delivered to the Democrats vanished when Massachusetts voters handed Teddy Kennedy's old seat to Scott Brown. Democratic control of...