Admission Of Guilt

Mitch McConnell is so completely terrified by the return of the public option that he's going to the referees for help.

It's "not clear" whether enough Democrats will defect on a majority-vote procedure on health legislation to stop it, the Senate's top Republican said Sunday.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that opposition to using a maneuver to bypass filibuster rules would be bipartisan, but hedged as to whether it would be strong enough to block such a tactic.

"There'll be a lot of Democrats who will vote against it," McConnell said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" about the controversial budget reconciliation process. "Whether there will be 11 Democrats who will vote against it is not clear."

Well, what is clear is that the request here is to have the Village now paint reconciliation as such a horrible, unconstitutionally fascist process (that Republicans would of course never use) that the only choice is for eleven brave Dems to step forward and announce they will never allow such horror.  Some are already coming forward to stop the ludicrous notion that America should be ruled by a simple majority vote.  Such tyranny is clearly unacceptable (unless Republicans are in power.)

The Republicans will of course reward them accordingly this fall by carefully pointing out that these Dems stopped health care fascism and will most certainly not call them socialists who are destroying America in campaign commercials.

It's what our Founding Fathers would have wanted.