Lindsey Graham runs to the warmth & safety of Fox "News" to whine about big bad meanie Harry Reid

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Lindsey Graham is Mad That Harry Reid Said the GOP Should "Stop Crying" About Reconciliation

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By Heather Wednesday Feb 24, 2010 4:00pm

Lindsey Graham is asked to respond to Harry Reid's statement that the GOP Should "Stop Crying" About Reconciliation:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters Tuesday that Republicans "should stop crying" about the possible use of the parliamentary procedure known as budget reconciliation to pass a health care reform bill.

Reid said reconciliation had been used 21 times since 1981, mostly by Republicans when they were in control of the Senate for the passage of items like the Bush tax cuts. (Here's a handy chart of when the procedure has been used.)

Under reconciliation, Democrats would need a simple majority in the Senate to pass legislation, as opposed to the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. "They should stop crying about reconciliation as if it's never been done before," Reid said.

Of course Graham thinks this will be the "end of minority rights in the Senate" after the Republicans being the most obstructionist in history and the Democrats accepting 160 Republican amendments to this mess of a health care bill which is unfortunately already bipartisan. These Republicans continually count on the country listening to what they say as opposed to what they do. That doesn't stop Graham from calling getting what is a bipartisan bill passed on health care "arrogance on steroids" and calling this the "end of the Senate as you know it".