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October 18, 2009

Harry Reid, Champion of the Filibuster, Might Nuke It

Glenn Cook, Las Vegas Review-Journal

If Harry Reid decides to use the Senate's "reconciliation" process to ram health care legislation through his chamber and crush a filibuster, then he'll have to reconcile something else: his astounding hypocrisy.

The majority leader from Nevada is working behind closed doors to merge health care bills passed by the Senate's health and finance committees. He desperately wants to come up with something that can get 60 votes -- the number needed to halt any attempt by minority Republicans to block a final vote on the massive expansion of federal authority.

Although Reid has 60 votes in his caucus, it might be an impossible task. Moderate Democrats oppose a "public option" that allows the government to sell health insurance and undercut private-sector providers, and far-left...

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