To change the rules of the United States Senate, there must be sixty-seven votes.
Section 3403 of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.” The good news is that this only applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and patients by the Independent Medicare Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.
Section 3403 of Senator Reid’s legislation also states, “Notwithstanding rule XV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, a committee amendment described in subparagraph (A) may include matter not within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Finance if that matter is relevant to a proposal contained in the bill submitted under subsection (c)(3).” In short, it sets up a rule to ignore another Senate rule.
So what they've done is to pass a law that changes the senate rules. But to do that, senate procedure is that you must have 67 votes, which democRATs could never get. And since no one really has a chance to actually read this shit, no one knew about it until the democRATs had already passed Reid's amendment (via bribery and graft). And when republicans found out and called the democRATs on their bullshit, they ran away, like the little whiny, arrogant pieces of shit they are.
I'm not advocating this sort of action (yet), but I'll be surprised if a D from a red state doesn't take a bullet to the head over this.
Much more at Hot Air (plus video), and Gabe at Ace has a different opinion.
Update (already!) - best retort to Gabe so far!
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