I signed up for email updates from Americans for Prosperity, a group I'm sure many of you are familiar with. I originally did it to keep an eye on them, and see what they have going on around my town of Eugene, Oregon. I love Oregon, and for the most part the larger cities are fairly liberal, but there's a major wing-nut component, too, and I like to see what they have going on.
Phil Kerpen, the policy director for AFP, sent out an email this morning exhorting one and all to pressure their elected representatives on the conference committee to keep health care out of reconciliation:
Reconciliation is a trick, a procedure designed for deficit reduction being misused to jam through a government takeover of health care with only 20 hours of debate, no amendments, and just 50 votes instead of the usual 60. This trick will silence Republicans and centrist Democrats, and allow a radical leftist plan in which government takes away control of health care from patients and doctors, and rations care by denying it to people judged by bureaucrats to be too old or too sick to justify the cost.
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