Democrats Ready to Arm Nukes

 Since Scott Brown won Massachusetts and broke the supermajority held by Democrats in the Senate, top Democrats are preparing to use a "nuclear option."  Before the polls even closed, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) began outlining a few "nuclear tactics" that Democrats could use to pass their socialization of healthcare.

"We could go to something called 'reconciliation', which is in the weeds procedurally, but would allow us to modify that health care bill by a different process that doesn't require 60 votes, only a majority," Durbin said. "So that is one possibility there."

"Reconciliation" is a process where only a 51-vote (rather than 60-vote) majority is necessary in the Senate to make adjustments to the bill.

Or the House could outright pass the Senate bill as-is and send it straight to Obama.  However, many House Democrats are very much against many provisions of the Senate bill, including the "cadillac tax" which the unions are also very strongly against.

The intended purpose of "reconciliation" is to provide an easy method to pass changes to taxes and spending that only work to bring legislation in line with the budget.  However, it is quite ironic that Republicans were the first to abuse the "reconciliation" process, use it the most often, and yet seem to have been forever against it.  Politicking at its finest.