McConnell: Reconciliation on health bill will provoke 'very severe reaction'

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McConnell: Reconciliation on health bill will provoke 'very severe reaction'
By Michael O'Brien - 09/20/09 10:02 AM ET

President Obama and congressional Democrats will face a "very, very severe" reaction if they push through health reform, the Senate's top Republican said Sunday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned against using budget reconciliation to pass a healthcare reform bill, a procedural maneuver that would allow Democrats to pass a health bill with only a simple majority of votes, and not the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster.

"If they try to use this legislative loophole called reconciliation, what they'll be doing in effect is jamming through a proposal to rewrite the economy with about 24 hours of debate," McConnell argued during an appearance on CNN. "I think that that will produce a very, very severe reaction among the American people."

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One more time: Mitch McConnell was for budget reconciliation before he was against it...

[beyurslf]

1. I think the severe reaction will be relief that the Dems did not let the crazy right wing

Repubs ruin health care reform for all of us.

[Trocadero]

2. that's the problem Mitch - you've already gone too far so your threat is empty

[Overseas]

20. That's what I'm thinkin.

The GOP and their right wing angels in the corporate sector have already hired professional bullies to gin up dangerous fear and hatred in vulnerable populations, even getting Medicare recipients to storm town halls against government help with healthcare. They've allowed the amped up angry citizens to carry racist signs without challenging them. They've already let folks with guns display them at public events without criticism.

Does he mean the GOP and its professional right wing bullies will try to do even more harm to our national dialogue?

Wish someone would ask him what else he had in mind.

[spanone]

3. dear mitch, that is so why i hope they use it....and shove it straight up your asses

[malaise]

5. +1

:D

[Jazzgirl]

37. Shove it up their asses with a gigantic

gorilla fist.

[The Magistrate]

4. If there Ever was a Paper Tiger, Ma'am, it was this Wretched Threat....

[Parker CA]

8. He's not even sure if it's a threat, he "thinks" there would be a severe reaction. Well, Mitch, ol'

buddy, you're in for the shock of a lifetime. The only severe reaction will be when people realize every single republican has voted against the best interests of the country.

What a long, long walk down the road of fail it will be.

[alfredo]

6. Hey Mitch, go fuck yourself. Anything a Dem says or does, no matter how benign,

provokes very severe reactions. So what else is new?

Just in case you forgot: Hey Mitch, go fuck yourself.

[indepat]

7. The president had better play nicely or 'pukes just might get nasty

:P

[Wednesdays]

30. Huh, after all those civil, cordial townhall meetings?

Really, Dems should listen to the Republicans...after they've been so *nice* to us lately! :eyes:

[bluestateguy]

9. The American people don't care about process issues

Folks in Washington have a hard time realizing that.

People care about policies and they care about results, not the process.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. McConnell is lame

but people don't care about Congressional procedures.

[annabanana]

10. Just exactly where the hell do they have to GO from where they

have been for months?

What "severe reaction" have they held in abeyance?

Really.

[Wednesdays]

31. Don't even start.

:nuke:

:scared:

[tularetom]

11. I don't believe Obama is worried about threats from people with no lips

Or chins.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. Maybe we'll be lucky and the backwash will go over cliffs like lemmings?

It seems that the lunatic wrong (aka right) are the only group of people who are so pissed off, doesn't it?

[Canuckistanian]

13. I think that's close to a threat of violence

Moreover, it's a dog whistle to the teabaggers.

What an irresponsible POS.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

17. I agree. nt

[kestrel91316]

14. Go suck an egg, Mitch. WE THE PEOPLE want healthcare reform,

and NOT the Republican version of it.

You can bite me, dickwad.

[Warpy]

15. Severe reaction = GOP temper tantrum

and who the hell cares? Those old boys had 12 years in power and they did nothing but rob this country of everything that made it a good place to live in just to fatten their contributors.

Those fools don't seem to realize they lost the election and lost it badly. They also don't seem to realize that the only negative reaction the Democrats will face, other than more GOP demagoguery, will come if they don't pass comprehensive reform, not if they do.

At their best, the Eisenhower Republicans used to be a counterbalance to Democratic excess, making sure that social programs could be funded by revenue instead of by wishful thinking about how a just would would look.

The ones in power are reactionary lunatics. They no longer serve any useful purpose. Their ideas were tried for 30 long, miserable years and have been found not only without merit, but downright destructive to the country and everyone who lives in it.

I'm beginning to think that whole party needs a course of antipsychotic drugs to stop those voices in their heads that say they're the true masters of the universe and still in charge of the country.

They're not and it's high time they awoke to the fact.

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. OOOOOOOOOHHH Mitch - shaking in my boots here in Raleigh.

I am really afraid that a president would try to do the right thing. Then again, you are very familiar with a president who couldn't have figured out the right thing to do with 100 years to contemplate the question. Work was too hard for him.

Mitch, go the way of your chin - disappear.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

18. A severe reaction is when your erection lasts for more than 4 hours

Stomping your feet. Threatening to eat worms, and holding your breath till you turn blue will just crack the rest of us up. We are used to such behavior from five year old children and Republics.

[williesgirl]

19. He thinks reconciliation should only be for tax cuts for the rich! Asshole. rec'd

[Overseas]

21. 24-hours of debate? The GOP had all summer but chose to send storm troops

to shout down any reform, rather than debating the issues.

Because on the issues of health insurance reform, Single Payer is best and Medicare works quite well.

So the GOP and corporate right decided to engage in dangerous reckless diversionary tactics all summer, and NOW he's saying time is too short?

And threatening even greater harm to our country?

Gee, what stunning ethics.

So I'm glad to see that he was also for budget reconciliation before he was against it. Another demonstration of true Republican ethics.

[BumRushDaShow]

22. In other news, Boner says "Boo!" to back up McCrookell's scary zombie yell

just in time for Halloween. The RW freaks are roaming the airwaves. :rofl:

[mzmolly]

23. Oh noes!!

We can't have a "severe reaction" from hypocritical Republicans! :sarcasm:

[grantcart]

24. We should get rid of filibuster while we are at it

[Triana]

25. Yes it will produce a very severe reaction. . .

We'll all be PARTYING!

You a$$hole, McConnell. Pfft.

[TheKentuckian]

26. Oh no!!!!!!!!!! Will the Republicans increase their obstruction and will the cretins yell at clouds?

The American people could give a crap as long as they don't get hosed and reconciliation might be the tool required to insure that. Why would the American people have a backlash to majority rule? Another lame fail by sadly my more sensible and liberal Senator.

[JerseygirlCT]

27. Is he going to stamp his feet and hold his breath? nt

[colsohlibgal]

28. True But...

in only 20% or so of the people, including insurance companies, boy will they be steaming.

[imdjh]

32. then it must be the right thing to do

[WeDidIt]

33. Looks like McConnell's pulling a play from Reid's playbook

How much you wanna bet McConnell writes a sternly worded letter if reconciliation is used?

[Vinca]

34. Oh, great. Now the minority leader is resorting to threats.

That's all the armed wingnuts need. By the way, didn't they 'pukes use reconciliaton to get through their tax cuts for the superwealthy leglislation in 2001? I've got a feel we might not be in this mess had that not been enacted. Shrub might actually have had enough money to pay for his war.

[Odin2005]

35. Is that a THREAT, you scumbag?

:grr:

[Jazzgirl]

36. Or what??!!?? Are the pukes gonna hold their breath 'til they pass out??

Promise? They did it all the time under the shrub. They can't take what they dish out.

[samsingh]

38. Democrats will be heroes forever if they pass meaningful

health care for all with a public option.

it may be the end of the gop.

[samsingh]

39. Democrats will be heroes forever if they pass meaningful

health care for all with a public option.

it may be the end of the gop.

[burning rain]

40. Here's news, McConnell.

We already have too many curbs on democracy in the US--an electoral college that allows a popular-vote loser to become president and a Senate that accords the same two votes to low-population rural states as to New York and California. So the devil with your notion that we have to further compromise democracy by requiring a 60-vote supermajority to pass anything important in the Senate.