GOP strategy: Let it bleed

[Perky]

GOP strategy: Let it bleed

Greg Sargent is up with a preview of the Senate Republicans' legislative strategy to kill refrom:

Senior Senate GOP leadership aides have settled on a new strategy that, they hope, will stall or kill the Dem health reform push: They are going to use the arcane “Byrd rule” to try to bleed the reconciliation fix to death and ensure that it never passes.



Senate GOPers will repeatedly invoke the Byrd rule to ask the parliamentarian to strip individual provisions (ones fixing this or that in the original bill) out of the fix, on the grounds that they are policy fixes. If individual provisions are stripped, it would change the Senate’s version of the overall fix.

That would force the House to vote on it again and again, stalling the process further.



There’s a larger game plan here. By making it clear they will do their best to tie reconciliation in procedural knots, Republicans are hoping to frighten House Dems into believing reconciliation is doomed. If House Dems are persuaded that the fix later will fail, they will be less likely to pass the original Senate bill in the first place, pehaps killing it.
From Politco, but the original Blog is here

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/gop-strategy-bleed-reconciliation-fix-to-death-with-byrd-rule/

[BunkerHill24]

1. thanks for the scoop, Perky

The Rethugs will not win...I assure you.

[denimgirly]

2. Give them Credit -- Republicans are Fighters