Kirk Samuelson » the Washington Post is stupid http://kirksamuelson.com Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:25:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The New Senate Rules http://kirksamuelson.com/2010/02/21/the-new-senate-rules/ http://kirksamuelson.com/2010/02/21/the-new-senate-rules/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:25:56 +0000 Kirk Samuelson http://kirksamuelson.com/?p=338 WAPO:

But the online materials will not address a controversial question — whether Democratic leaders would use a parliamentary procedure known as “reconciliation” to try to pass health-care changes without the usual 60 votes in the Senate, officials said.

This is beyond stupid. Legislation never needs 60 votes to pass. NEVER. The WAPO is so dumb.

Sigh. Things would be so much easier if the Republicans didn’t have a 41 seat majority to the Democrats 59.

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