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If Republicans get enough votes November 4th to take over the Senate, they will use a tricky, little-known maneuver to try to ram through their right-wing policies. The maneuver is called "reconciliation." And it requires only 51 votes to pass major tax and budget legislation, instead of the 60 votes usually required to pass legislation in the Senate. If Republicans win this November, they'll have those 51 votes. ... [I]f [the Republicans] take over the Senate, they'll be able to pass legislation. And Mitch McConnell has threatened to shut down the government again, if President Obama doesn't sign it. ... Don't let them get control of the Senate. Democrats currently have a majority, but that hangs in the balance this election, and a handful of states will determine the outcome.
Sorry Li'l Bob, but reconciliation is not a "little-known" maneuver. Rather, it was made notorious when Senate Democrats and the Obama Administration used it to pass the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which placed the finishing touches on Obamacare:
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The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111–152, 124 Stat. 1029) is a law that was enacted by the 111th United States Congress, by means of the reconciliation process, in order to amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub.L. 111–148). [emphasis added]
If Republicans win back the Senate in 2014 and then use the "tricky maneuver" of reconciliation to "ram through" legislation, they will only be following the precedent established by the Democrats when they used reconciliation to ram through Obamacare in 2010. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, Bob.
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