"Trick" use to pass health care bill

Perhaps you read recently about the comment by a Democrat staffer that they are going to use a "trick" of reconciliation to pass the health care people, against the will of the people. Apparently they didn't get the Massachusetts message. Here is verification that this remark was indeed made and the plans being laid to actually take this action.

Americans for Limited Government chairman Bill Wilson, writing at NetRightNation.com, points to the Democrats' bottom-line goal in this process:

"The idea here — and the problem — is that House and Senate Democrats want to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate to enact government-run health care, solidifying one-party rule despite the election of Senator Brown in Massachusetts. For, if reconciliation can be invoked to avert the filibuster on this issue, it surely would be used to enact other radical proposes such as caps on carbon emissions, the takeover of the energy industry, the nationalization of the banks, etc."

As a regular commenter on these pages often reminds us, the "issue" for Democrats is never the issue, the issue is always control.