Budget Reconciliation HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE*

[underpants]

* except in the following major policy changes

Health insurance portability (COBRA)
nursing home standards
expanded Medicaid eligibility
increases in the earned income tax credit (EITC)
the state Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
major tax cuts
student aid reform
and, of course, welfare reform

:eyes:

Santorum: Reconciliation ‘Has Never Been Done Before’ — Except For When I Used It

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/27/santorum-reconciliation/

SANTORUM: What the Democrats have done is to try to short-circuit the process on a major piece of legislation. This has never been done before. We have never seen a major, long-term, policy prescription, whether it's Medicare, or go back throughout history and look at all the major pieces of legislation, none of them have ever been passed using this procedure. ... This is truly an abomination.
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Indeed, Santorum himself was the Senate Republicans' point man in trying to push welfare reform through budget reconciliation in 1995, including it in a budget then-President Clinton opposed, as the Washington Post reported on Nov. 11, 1995:

But the welfare measures will be part of the overall reconciliation bill that Clinton has said he will veto.

Welfare reform may become a free-standing bill to be passed separately from the reconciliation measure. "This is a bill the president has absolutely no reason not to sign," said Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who acted as an intermediary in negotiations between the House and Senate on welfare.

[KittyWampus]

1. The Republican Party is like a freaking Vaudville Act on the world stage

talk about mentally de-compensating.

[underpants]

3. The internets is killing them

Talk radio was founded on the fact that there was no historical record. No transcripts.
Rush and his kind can say anything they want and even if their audience actually dares to think "Hey just last month didn't he say..." there was no way to check it

Now MediaMAtters thinkprogress Crooksandliars (by faves) as well as others go back and expose them for their, let's say, hypocrisy

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. Titicut Follies. If they were declared technically insane we would be spared from seeing or hearing

them due to their right to privacy.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicons have the hypocrisy thingy down to a science

Verily I say unto thee, Republicons are the Latter Day Pharisees.