Starboard Broadside

Well, I'm still cautious because every day people at the White House have said totally different things on the same elements of the health reform process (sometimes and especially the same people were contradicting themselves sharply from one day to the next), but this statement from David Axelrod is a very positive sign that President Obama will back the use of budget reconciliation to pass final adjustments --by majority vote-- to the Senate health reform bill to make it palatable to the House:


Budget reconciliation, by law, procedurally prohibits Senate filibusters, thus removing the possibility of a 60-vote hurdle. This should have been on the table long ago, but I'll take it if I can get it now.