They Only Change the Rules When It Suits Them

They were planning on shoving it through anyway.

H/T FreeRepublic
From Gateway Pundit

Dems Announce Plans to Ram Through Obamacare with 51 Votes if Scott Brown Wins
Friday, January 15, 2010, 7:58 PM
Jim Hoft

Democrats tonight announced that they will likely ram Obamacare through the US Senate using the reconciliation process. This would allow democrats to nationalize one-sixth of the US economy wiith only 51 Senate Democrats voting for the bill.

Bloomberg reported: Even if Democrats lose the special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator Tuesday, Congress may still pass health-care overhaul through a process called reconciliation, a top House Democrat said.

That procedure requires 51 votes rather than the 60 needed to prevent Republicans from blocking votes on President Barack Obama’s top legislative priorities. That supermajority is at risk as the Massachusetts race has tightened.

“Even before Massachusetts and that race was on the radar screen, we prepared for the process of using reconciliation,” Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said.