re: #164 brookly red

meaning that we do care about the process (reconciliation or otherwise) and yes we Dems will loose seats & whatever creditability we still have.

Maybe, but reconciliation has been used many times before without either party losing much (more) credibility.

Likely there will be a big outcry IF this passes, but mostly from people who are already crying out loudly now so I don’t think things will seem that much different…the teapartiers are already at fever pitch, how do you crank that up?

And when most people realize the bill doesn’t really turn us into Bolsheviks, and doesn’t even affect most people directly, ugly process will be largely forgotten. Remember, most Americans neither know nor care what a filibuster is.