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{ 2010 03 24 }

Lovely parting gifts

I’m not saying the reconciliation bill isn’t important, but scuttling it would be a little like winning the NIT.

Posted by Aerion on Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 4:16 pm. Filed under Politics. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.
  1. Pinyan | March 24, 2010 at 9:58 pm | Permalink

    Killing the reconciliation bill would also be bad policy AND bad politics. Hate the state-by-state deals that were worked out (I refuse to use the myriad “cute” names the GOP came up with)? This is your chance to remove them! Republicans, nothing you do is going to prevent HCR from taking effect, it’s been signed. But you can make it suck less by approving the reconciliation package. If you vote against it, and it fails, YOU will be the reason why Louisiana (and Hawaii), Florida, Nebraska, Montana, etc. have the special treatment you despise. And I’d really fucking hope Democrats would air ads to that effect six months from now.

    Not. Holding. My breath.

  2. Aerion | March 24, 2010 at 11:20 pm | Permalink

    Yeah, that’s what I meant by “winning the NIT”. Great job, you scored a minor victory that has no meaning in the grand scheme of things because your opponents already won the Big Dance.

    OK, so it’s not a very good metaphor, but it’s an excuse to make fun of the NIT.