Because if we played by the rules we'd never get what WE want at your expense

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Now that both the House and Senate have passed health care reform bills, all Democrats have to do is work out a compromise between the two versions. And it appears they’re not about to let the Republicans gum up the works again.

According to a pair of senior Capitol Hill staffers, one from each chamber, House and Senate Democrats are “almost certain” to negotiate informally rather than convene a formal conference committee. Doing so would allow Democrats to avoid a series of procedural steps--not least among them, a series of special motions in the Senate, each requiring a vote with full debate--that Republicans could use to stall deliberations, just as they did in November and December.

“There will almost certainly be full negotiations but no formal conference,” the House staffer says. “There are too many procedural hurdles to go the formal conference route in the Senate.”

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-treatment/exclusive-dems-almost-certain-bypass-conference

[thundley4]

Open and transparent are words, just words.  Screwing the country, now that is hope and change we can feel.

[Freeper]

They will do anything to get a bill with health care in the title passed. They figure they can tweak it to what they really want over time.
We are so screwed.

[littlelamb]

They will do anything to get a bill with health care in the title passed. They figure they can tweak it to what they really want over time.
We are so screwed.

I think we were screwed on January 20,2009 and we are going to feel it for a few more years