Thursday.....Politics.....Nuclear Option

If you had read my blog from a few days ago on Rush Limbaugh you would expect that I am pleased that he dropped out of the group that is bidding on The St. Louis Rams National Football Team. A slanderous campaign was waged against him and pressure mounted to keep him out of the league. This is the modus operandi of politics from the Left today. Thanks to their efforts, Rush Limbaugh gets to concentrate more on the issues at hand and he gets a whole lot of publicity to boot, and will probably be a little bit more motivated. Hopefully, many will tune in to see what this hullabaloo is all about. The Pittsburgh Steeler's Dan Rooney was very vocal in supporting Barack Obama for President and was rewarded with an ambassadorship, later taking his championship football team to the White House for a photo op, but there is no divisiveness here. On the health care debate, the Democrats are set to use the nuclear option. This past summer the House Ways and Means Committee passed a procedural rule that they call Reconciliation. This was supposed to speed up budgetary legislation, allowing limited debate and eluding filibuster. In this situation, only a simple majority would be needed to pass the legislation instead of 60 votes. There are problems galore here. Passing the budgetary items are one thing but how would they get the actual policy into the bill? If this goes into 2010, an election year, they will surely be out of a job as the public sees this bill in its entirety, complete with campaign information and commentary. In my view, even it it does pass, by the time of the 2010 elections, the public will see just what they have got themselves into leading to the same result. There is still the chance that they can twist enough arms to get the 60 votes needed where they will not have to use the nuclear option, but if they use the option, how do they get it off off the front page. Look for conveniently timed major announcements right about that time. The Democratic leadership is very confident that the American people either cannot see what is going on in the backrooms of the Capitol, or that they will continue to ignore it.