“Anyone who endorses this strategy will be forever remembered for trying to claim they didn’t vote for something they did.  It will go down as one of the most extraordinary legislative sleights of hand in history.” — Mitch McConnell.

Such is the manner Mr. McConnell characterizes the “Self Exeuting Rule”, the rule in which the House is seeking to pass the Senate Health Care Plan — without passing such measures as, oh, the Big bad oh so evil package for Nebraska and Senator Ben Nelson.  A few steps down the process, the Senate will get to vote again — stripped of, for instance, the bad little Ben Nelson vote getter — for the vote count that had it been allowed would have kept our sanity in the first place.

51.  Or, actually 50 and faithful Joe Biden.

McConnell is not correct.  To be correct, his statement would have to be tied to these measures, such as Ben Nelson’s Nebraska pork item, becoming the law of the land.  Or, they’re voting for a “this bill but”.

I’m sure there is a hyperbolic way to characterize this process, but this isn’t yet it.

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