Updated: Meet the 'ram-it-through caucus'

According to the liberal group Whip Congress, 96 Democrats in the House have signed a letter demanding that a health insurance reform bill be passed through the budget reconciliation process. Such a scheme — a fairly straightforward abuse of the congressional budget system established in the Nixon era — would require only 51 Senate votes for ObamaCare to become law.

By my count, few of the 96 signing Democrats have any serious chance of losing an election (Paul Tonko, NY, and John Yarmuth, Ky.). The rest would suffer little from the electoral tsunami that would come in reaction to any such attempt at ramming health reform through Congress now.