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Republicans are promising that Democrats will pay a price this fall for passing such a sweeping and controversial bill this way - and they may be right. "A raw exercise of legislative power," Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell called the emerging game plan. He vowed, "It will be the issue in every race in America this fall." Yet this use of the reconciliation procedure - ironically misnamed, given the antagonism it has stirred - would not be as radical a maneuver as Republicans claim. Created in 1974, reconciliation has been used 21 times, mostly by Republicans, who employed it to, among other things...
...miracle of miracles, it may pass. And if it passes - contrary to the conventional wisdom - it will work to the Democrats' advantage. Next fall, their candidates will be able to say, "Because of us, no one can ever take away your health insurance. My Republican opponent voted against that." That is, if they have the brains to make the argument...
Ultimately, Pelosi may have to change the votes of a handful of conservative Democrats who voted against the original House bill in November. She'll argue that the newer version is smaller and less expensive. It also does not include a government-run public option for providing coverage to the uninsured - a provision of the original House measure that had been anathema to those who saw it as the leading edge of what they feared would be a government takeover of health care...
Voting for health care may well end the careers of some House Democrats; their opponents already have attack ads ready. But having come this far, Obama believes, there is something that would be even worse for the Democrats. And that would be to fail to finish...
...reports of looting in Chile's earthquake-ravaged cities run counter to the country's vaunted sense of Swiss-style order. But overconfidence may have tripped up the government as it sought to project its newly minted membership in the league of developed nations...