Grayson, Bachmann Debate Health Care Reform On 'Larry King Live' (Video)

[cal04]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/grayson-bachmann-debate-h_n_485078.html
more at link
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Bachmann: An up or down vote is a good thing, Larry. It's just how many votes will it take. Will it take 50 votes or will it take 60 votes...

King: Well what's wrong with majority rules?

Bachmann: Well because that's not how the Senate works. The Senate works with 60 votes, and now what the president is promoting is a nuclear option which is 50 votes.

King: But it used the majority rules on the Bush tax cuts.

Bachmann: Well, the House uses straight majority rules, the Senate doesn't. So what this means is that the Senate has to break their own rules in order to pass the bill.


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Grayson responded:

My esteemed colleague from Minnesota is entirely wrong. There's nothing in the Senate rules that prevents reconciliation. It's been used 22 times overall and 14 times by Republicans. If it's good enough to provide tax cuts for the rich -- twice unter Bush -- it's good enough to provide health care for all Americans.

[glinda]

1. Beautiful

[KamaAina]

2. That is extremely unsporting of Grayson

in the words of the immortal Oscar Wilde (?), he is fighting a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent. :P

[WatchWhatISay]

3. Oh no! The rules specifically state

that if he calls her his esteemed colleague first, that negates the fact the she is unarmed.

[Guilded Lilly]

4. Bachmann makes me cringe on so many levels

I can't even pick one to specifically criticize without getting a case of *gack* and shudders!

Habitually vapid, embarrassingly dense and intensely narrow-brained is a good start, though.

[northofdenali]

5. OMG, I wish I had cable about now.

The HuffPo has a huge thread about this (sorry, no link) but it was a pretty-much consensus that Grayson would wipe Bachmanninof off the map.............

She and Sarah must be special friends.

[Barbara2423]

6. They are