Legal Commentary

From The Hindsight Is 20/20 File . . .

By Big Tent Democrat

Matt Yglesias:

If reconciliation could be revived, things might look different. There’s a good case for not doing this legislation through reconciliation. The product that emerged from the parliamentarian’s wringer could be sub-optimal in various ways. But the product that emerges from Lieberman’s wringer will also be sub-optimal. So given a viable threat of reconciliation, it seems to me that both sides would have some incentive to compromise.

NOW he writes this? Sheesh. This was the point when a lot of us were writing this 6 months ago. The worst political bargainers in the history of political bargaining.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 14, 2009 (boomark / email).