Hitler would have been proud!

It's ok, they're republicans.

C'mon Eli, we're talking about the democrats here. They'll never have the balls to use reconciliation, even if its in their own political interest to do so.

And this is why Congress has a 10% approval rating.

@5,
Are you sure it's that high? That's not, like, rounded up to the nearest 10's?

No, that's the real number, Urgutha, but for the life of me I don't understand why it's that high either.

they're so afraid that they are distorting the danger of using reconciliation. the GOP used it without a qualm. get something done, even something as half-assed as this plan, and they'll see the consequences are POSITIVE - the polling will go UP.

Yes, @1 the plan stinks because the GOP INSISTED on gutting it of most of the useful provisions that would have benefited American taxpayers. Then, AFTER crying like little titty-babies that the Dems weren't being "bipartisan enough" and demanding they take out all those provisions on threat of filibuster, and THEN after seeing the public's approval for the now-eviscerated plan evaporate, they now have the temerity to say "the Amurkin people don't support this plan. Let's have a 'do over'", which of course wouldn't have been the case had we gotten the more comprehensive plan a solid majority of us wanted, but which the GOP kept saying they wouldn't support.

See how that works?

Democrats are likely to use reconciliation because they're afraid to use their balls and make the friggin' Republicans actually filibuster something instead of just threatening it. I want to see a single Republican with the drive and the stamina to stand at his desk for a week reading the damn phone book -- then I'll believe they have some principles, but until then, not so much. And I want to see the Democrats make him do it -- but until then, I won't believe in their balls, either.

Remember, filibuster is good cause if we can't have a minority of US Senators, representing 10 percent of US citizens, make decisions for the vast majority of us, while ignoring the fact that the filibuster isn't even in the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, or official US Senate Rules (other than for international treaties and confirmation appointments) ... then the three-quarters of American citizens who want single payer national health care or at least a strong public option ... might get what the Majority wanted.

Cause Democracy is what the Democratic Party is all about.

Democracy Bad, Elitist Minority Rule Good ... right?

@10: the dems are afraid of the quorum calls - the filibuster could stop indefinitely if a GOP senator calls for a vote - they either have to get to the floor in the middle of the night, of the GOP gets to stop bloviating and take a nap.

the senate must die.

That's it @11? That's all you got? A four year-old could have come up with something more cutting.

Makes perfect sense you'd be too embarrassed to put your name on such a pathetic come-back.