Reply #2: The only way to use reconciliation would be to split the legislation in half. You know [View All]

Clinton tried to go the reconciliation route in '93 and he couldn't.

The problem is that reconciliation has all kinds of limitations on it. All the stuff in the bill about insurance reform can't go through reconciliation. And even if a teensy tiny puny public option or a big beefy mega public option were passed separately through reconciliation, it's only good for what, four years before it has to go back and be passed the regular way? What good would that do? Before the big or small public option is even slated to begin, it would have to passed again.

You have to ask yourself ProSense, why doesn't Obama just say, "We will do it with reconciliation!" Why Doesn't Dodd just say "We will do it with reconciliation!"

The answer is because reconciliation won't work very well. So get pissed at Conrad for telling you the truth, or better yet, learn the truth yourself so you aren't in the position of finding it out from Conrad.