ROBERT GIBBS = CLOWN

WHAT A MONGOLOID
Even if Democrats lose the Jan. 19 special election to pick a new Massachusetts senator, Congress may still pass a health-care overhaul by using 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 Obamas 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, said Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Getting health-care reform passed is important, Van Hollen said in an interview on Bloomberg Televisions Political Capital with Al Hunt, airing this weekend. Reconciliation is an option.

Using reconciliation would likely force Democrats to scale back their health-care plans. The procedure is designed to make deficit-cutting easier by reducing the number of votes needed to pass unpopular tax increases and spending cuts. Lawmakers cant include policy changes that the parliamentarian deems have only an incidental connection to budget-cutting, and senators would need 60 votes to override those rulings.

Van Hollen also said he expects Democratic Senate candidate Martha Coakley to win in Massachusetts.

Pure Hallucination

Van Hollen said Republican predictions that the political climate had changed so much that they can capture the 40 seats needed to regain control of the House was pure hallucination.

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident? Van Hollen said. For the Republicans to say vote for us and bring back the guys who got us into this mess in the first place, I dont think its a winner.

He said Democrats expect to see their majority shrink this year because the party that occupies the White House traditionally loses congressional seats in the first midterm election.

At the end of a week dominated by images of death and destruction after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, Van Hollen said lawmakers likely will approve whatever relief money the president requests. Obama has already asked for $100 million.

We want to help people who need relief immediately, and so to that extent I support it, Van Hollen said.

Haitians in U.S.

Separately, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday that Haitian nationals now in the U.S. will be allowed to stay for an additional 18 months because of the quake devastation.

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[democratsdid911]

The saddest thing is that this is probably the most competent person in the entire Obama administration.

[JohnRaytheon]

@democratsdid911 - I like him because this retard accidentally tells the truth once in a while - that dems will lose the House, that the far left are psychopaths and mental patients etc...he's right

[skepticismjoe]

hehehehe  :))))))

Gibbs went nut!

[JohnRaytheon]

@skepticismjoe

yeah he lost it in that presser

[MILISA99]

Gibbs is making more sense here than he usually does!

[giosig]

obamas best and brightest

[AnonymousGeek96]

keep pressing 1.

[WilliamDRowlett]

Everyone in this White House is in over their collective heads.

[grhr69]

we have a coward for a president

[ishmaeldaro]

This was pointless.

[TexasMedicine]

"Holdaholahola. Holaholahola." That's rich.

[a2hunts]

holdo n holda on holdaholda holdan lmao

[5ezpzez]

He really knows how to articulate his thoughts, doesn't he?