It's better to ask forgiveness than permission

That lesson, learned by four year olds world wide, seems to finally have sunk in to the democrats in congress.

U.S. Senate passes reconciliation bill and sends it back to the House

About time. It goes without saying that I think the bill itself needs some fixing, but a big part of politics is just pushing stuff forward. Bush and the republicans won elections over the first half of the last decade simply by being "The Decider(s)."

I can't believe it took the Dems almost a year and a half to figure out the same strategy.