This, via Daily Kos: Newt Gingrich was on Sean Hannity last night to talk about Senate Democrats considering passing health care reform via filibuster-proof reconciliation. If they used reconciliation, a budget process that would require only 51 votes instead of 60, Gingrich said it would be akin to the rule of Venezuela’s socialist president, Hugo Chavez.
“I think that what you’re seeing is a Chicago machine politics approach that basically says, if we can run over you and mug you, then we’re going to get away with it,” Gingrich said. “And I think what they don’t understand is that this is not Chicago. That the United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule in the Senate. I don’t it’ll happen.”
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