The People Be Damned: Schumer Calls For Nuclear Option - With Video
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is signaling that he’s nearly ready to give up on bipartisan health care reform talks in favor of options that could be pursued solely by Democrats.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Schumer made three separate mentions of trying to push a health care bill through the Senate with all 60 Democratic votes, regardless of whether Republicans are on board.
“We could get a public option that could be passed with the 60 Democratic votes we have,” Schumer said.
While insisting that he prefers a bipartisan approach, Schumer said his patience for the Senate Finance Committee negotiations is running out.
“They’re bending over backwards but at some point soon after we get back, if we don’t have a bipartisan bill we’ll never be able to meet the goal of having a bill signed into law by the end of the year,” the New York Democrat said. “We are considering alternatives. They include just getting 60 Democratic votes and maybe an occasional Republican here or there….They include looking at reconciliation which only needs 51……It’s looking less and less likely that certainly the Republican leadership in the House and Senate will go for a bipartisan bill.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who joined Schumer on the show, said Democrats should not try to use reconciliation to force through a bill which could not overcome a filibuster in the Senate.
“If they use that, that would be an abuse of the process,” Hatch said. He also said creating a government health plan open to all would be a grave mistake. “If we do that, we’ll bankrupt the country.”
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Fuck Schumer’s idea of bi-partisan is with RINO’s getting on board if possible and if not then pulling their puds until he has his reconciliation number of 51.HEHEHE Maybe Byrd and Kennedy and Dowd can use the same ambulance along with Specter. Let Kennedy drive, I’m sure there is a bridge somewhere on the route.
Why are so many Americas Jews so bent on destroying the only nation that protects them ??? Talk about being libtards they take the cake
Rahm said it best,”We won! Republicans go f**k yourselves!
I learned a lesson a long time ago. Be noble in defeat and gracious in victory. The “Progressives” have proven themselves to be neither. The war has begun
“Schumer” and “bipartisan” don’t belong in the same sentence.
Man Politico sucks. Did TheHuffinHo buy them out?
…where’s a stray lightning bolt when you need it? Although if it hit him it wouldn’t be stray.
Didn’t Sen. Schumer just get an award from ACORN?
Yep, he bent over and took it up the ass like a good cracker commie whore.
Somebody please take this mealy-mouth bastard to the woodshed.
It will get passed and signed. Then it is “law of the land”.
When Martial Law comes for the Big Crisis and there are NO 2010 elections. Then it, Organizing For America “Brown Shirt” Law and other Communist actions, will still the NEW “Law of the Land”…..and harder to get rid of!!!!!!
Schumer’s lucky he lives in liberal new york. He wouldn’t get reelected elsewhere. Same with ron paul and texas.
WHO the Hell does this guy Work for?
Does He even know?
Punisher55, I’m an American Jew and a combat vet as well as a former Huey door gunner. I will go down fighting before I’ll give up my country to a black muslim faggot.
