Dems' game-changing bid to ram through entire agenda via budget bill

There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of jamming through any massive, generational reform without some form of buy-in from the other party.

Today, Democrats argue that the filibuster's imaginary threat of "Minority rule" has compelled them to use the budgetary reconciliation process to jam through their entire agenda in the most expensive bill in American history.

In the days before the Affordable Care Act fight forever changed the Senate, nearly every major post-war reform bill easily passed the 60-vote threshold: The Civil Rights Act got 73 votes in the Senate; Medicare and Medicaid got 68; the Voting Rights Act had 77; the Clean Air Act passed with 73; Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax-reform bill got 89; the 1996 welfare-reform bill had 74; No Child Left Behind got 91; and the PATRIOT Act had 98, just to name a few.

This is not to contend that simply because a bill can attract bipartisan support it is a good one.

Nothing in the Constitution says a party must pass big, transformational bills.

It is almost certain that the vast majority of Americans have no idea what is even inside the reconciliation bill.

I'm not sure what the cost will be for altering American governance in this manner with a single bill corruptly crammed through the budget process, but it will be unprecedented and, almost surely, make American politics far worse in every way imaginable.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/01/dems-game-changing-bid-to-ram-through-entire-agenda-via-budget-bill/