So Nice it's Posted Twice

I posted this as part of a link earlier, but it's worth revisiting as a separate post. As I'm sure we're all aware now, the Democrats are threatening to enact health care legislation through the "nuclear option", more properly known as budget reconciliation, a procedural move allowing for only 50 votes in the Senate in cases of legislation which is deficit neutral (its first use was actually to curtail spending to reduce the deficit). In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (soon to be retired D. NV) even told Republicans to "stop crying" about the option. But then, Harry knows all about crying about reconciliation. In fact, so does President Obama, Senator Chuck Schumer (D. NY), and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D. ummm...Arkansas? NY?...) amongst others now threatening to use the procedure despite 56% of Americans being against the plan and only 44% for Obama care. So once again for your viewing pleasure, I give you hypocrites row on video. I especially like how they call it an arogant power grab and a threat to constitutional separation of powers.

Let's be clear, both parties have used this method before and both have complained about it before. But this is beyond the pale.