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Reconciliation Coming?

11:42 AM, Sep 11, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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Well, yes, and we know that because as Fred Barnes pointed out on the night of the speech, Obama did nothing to reach out to Republicans and everything to rally wavering members of his own party in his address to Congress. Further evidence of the White House's preference for pushing health care through the Senate using reconciliation comes from this CNS report:

Regarding the prospect of using reconciliation to pass the Senate health care bill with only 51 votes, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod told CNSNews.com White House Correspondent Fred Lucas, "It's enormously important that we get something done - and, we'll get it done."

"At the end of the day, this is not just a matter of process. It's a matter of progress," Axelrod continued. "And it's enormously important that we get something done -- and we'll get it done, and we'll do what the situation requires," Axelrod told Lucas.

It's interesting how liberals obsess over matters of process when it comes to the detention and interrogation of terrorists, but when it comes to imposing their domestic agenda on a hostile American public -- then it's about results, getting something done, and doing whatever the situation requires.

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