Knowing that their precious health care “reform” would go down to ignominious defeat if they played by the rules, Senate Democrats have decided that they will force the issue through the Senate by treating it in the same manner as budgetary issues. Well, there is a certain logic to it, since it will make health care spending one of the biggest items in an already overly bloated federal budget.
But you know, there is one thing about using a nuclear bomb (as the idiom refers to)–you’d better be damn sure you’re way outside the blast radius before it goes off.
I figure Venus will be about right if they pull this stunt.