Quote Originally Posted by tony View Post
If your beef truly is with the legislative process then where was this sentiment during the Bush administration? Reconcilliation was a very common tool to push through legislation that would never pass through congress.


Respectfully I have 2 opinions:

1) the use of reconciliation THEN is not even comparable to the use of it now. You can't possibly compare tax cuts to a total overhaul of 1/6th of our economy. Is this pandoras box now? Why vote on anything anymore just use reconciliation. Furthermore tax cuts is reducing existing tax rules, healthcare reform isn't reducing existing taxes ONLY, or reducing BUDGETARY excesses. Sure some will argue fey are the same thing but any rationale human being knows that the bush tax cuts is not even in the same arena of healthcare reform.

2) If bush was wrong in your mind then the dems are no different. I never get this argument "bush did it" so it's ok if Obama does it. I never said I agreed with bush using it either but again in my mind ita not even in the same arena. If bush used reconciliation to pass oh I don't know, the war on Iraq, or homeland security agency, then it would be a similar argument