This is his actual argument against allowing the Senate to pass healthcare reform by a simple majority:
the United States is not going to tolerate a group of people trying apply kind of a Hugo Chavez majoritarian rule
Is that why we hate Hugo Chavez now? Because of his profound commitment to majoritarian rule? Yes, that must be why conservatives dislike him.
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