Washington – “This is a breathtaking procedure,” says Sen. Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.), in an interview with National Review Online. Looking across toward the House, he says Democrats are about to “pull the ultimate trick” on the American people if they use the “Slaughter rule” to pass Obamacare. “If it passes like that, the American people will throw their arms up,” he says.

While saying he has “no idea” if it’s constitutional, Alexander believes that “even if it is constitutional, there will be an immediate spontaneous combustion in the country,” should the bill become law. A “new movement, an uproar,” he adds, “will rise up and culminate with the election in November, telling Washington to send it back and repeal it.”