Senate Republicans have cited West Virginia's Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd as someone who has spoken forcefully against using the reconciliation tactic as a means to pass health care legislation through the Senate.
It should be noted that Sen. Byrd went after the Republicans in 2005 and compared their strategy to Nazi tactics (see video and transcript below) when Republicans considered using their majority power to halt an unprecedented filibuster mounted by the Democrats against President Bush's judicial nominees. Democrats called it the "nuclear option" while Republicans argued that the Constitution only required members to "advise and consent" on the president's nominations, with no provision for a super-majority, so Republicans called it instead the "constitutional option." Story/Video
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