White House: If GOP Filibusters, We’ll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation | The Plum Line

White House: If GOP Filibusters, We’ll Pass Health Reform Via Reconciliation | The Plum Line:

In the course of unveiling Obama’s new health reform proposal on a conference call with reporters this morning, White House advisers made it clearer than ever before: If the GOP filibusters health reform, Dems will move forward on their own and pass it via reconciliation.

The assertion, which is likely to spark an angry response from GOP leaders, ups the stakes in advance of the summit by essentially daring Republicans to try to block reform."