Democrats are scrambling to use obscure and possibly illegal parliamentary procedures to pass health care reform because, they say, “Congress is broken.”

They plan to pass the bill with “reconciliation,” a shady maneuver to avoid the filibuster, or perhaps the “Slaughter Solution,” which, incredibly, would declare a bill passed when it isn’t. Democrats claim they have no choice but to resort to these tactics — gridlock and ossified rules make it impossible to get anything done.