The knuckleheads in the Senate may want to tread lightly. If they try an end around to the traditional cloture process, they could potentially open a can of worms that the Democrats will end up swallowing.
Play by the rules, or end up in the dust bin of history as early as 2013.
Dangers to Democrats of End-Running Cloture
By Bruce Walker
It is possible, but not yet clearly probable, that Senate Democrats may seek to ram through Health Care Reform without the sixty votes necessary to prevent a Republican filibuster. Although on paper Democrats had sixty Senate seats after Al Franken was admitted to the Senate that is not enough for the three fifths majority needed for cloture. Teddy Kennedy is no longer in the Senate and his seat will be filled either by hypocritical legislative action, or by a special election. Robert Byrd of West Virginia is almost 92 years old and in very frail health. His presence in the Senate can never be guaranteed.
Beyond that, Senate Democrats in conservative states are facing increasingly strong pressure from constituents not to follow blindly the Democrat leadership. Blanche Lincoln and Byron Dorgan of Arkansas and North Dakota respectively, are considered “safe” seats in 2010, but popular outrage at Obama’s health care plans runs deep in these very conservative states (Arkansas has 43% of the electorate conservative and only 16% liberal; North Dakota has 45% of the electorate conservative and only 17% liberal.)
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I have just posted on the Senate, suggesting that it reform is needed. To read, pls see http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-u-s-senate-what-is-it-really/