(Senator Judd Gregg discusses the ‘Nuclear Option’ aka Reconciliation)

Without needing a single Republican vote to pass health care legislation, President Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, still couldn’t do it.

Once the American people learned that it would be funded by massive cuts in Medicare and new taxes, they were able to sway enough representatives in order to temporarily kill the bill.

While the Democrats relentless push to pass the legislation, along with out of control gov’t spending, has been credited with the GOP grabbing the governorships of New Jersey, Virginia–and even the Senate seat of Liberal Lion and longtime champion of socialized medicine, Teddy Kennedy.

Given the election results and the unpopularity of the bill, it should be dead in the water.

But today Barak Obama stated that he ”wants a simple up or down vote” — which in unpopular terms means that he is willing to trigger the “nuclear option”. It requires only 51 votes in the Senate, as opposed to the usual 60–to get a bill through.

Whether or not the bill becomes law, look for Obama and Congress’s approval numbers to plummet to abyss-like levels.

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