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By E. J. Dionne | Monday, February 8, 2010 | The Washington Post

“…The House and Senate disagree over the order in which these things should be done, but they can resolve this. The real problem is that some Senate Democratic moderates are petrified that Republicans will make terrible trouble if the amendments are passed through the “reconciliation process,” which is fancy congressional talk for majority rule. Reconciliation bills require a simple majority of the Senate, not the 60 votes that, wrongly, have come to be necessary to get any bill through. But if Democrats are that intimidated by Republicans, they should just give up their majority….”….BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020701787_pf.html