[lbo-talk] How to make the Senate a majority rule institutionin one day

[Jordan Hayes]

> Expansion of Medicare (even as far as "Medicare for All" alias single 
> payer) would absolutely qualify.

I doubt that.

Anyway, this is kind of funny:

http://mediamatters.org/research/201001210001

    Van Susteren misuses "nuclear option," allows Gregg

    to call reconciliation "arcane"

    Fox News' Greta Van Susteren falsely described the budget

    reconciliation process as the "nuclear option," and allowed

    Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) to refer to it as "arcane." In fact,

    the "nuclear option" actually refers to a procedure that

    would be used to change Senate rules, while reconciliation

    requires no such rule change and was used many times by

    Republicans during the Bush administration, with the support

    of Gregg.

Reconciliation only "works" for budget bills that would otherwise not 
get passed.

As usual, Wikipedia has a decent overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_(United_States_Congress)

/jordan