U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) issued the following statement after President Barack Obama announced today that he favors using the reconciliation procedure to pass his healthcare “reforms”…

“Well, the president talked a great deal about bipartisanship during the health care summit last week, but it’s now clear that was just to distract attention away from his purely partisan strategy – forcing Obamacare down our throats using the unprecedented reconciliation process.”

“No amount of speeches and media events can hide the fact that President Obama and his liberal congressional allies are simply refusing to listen to the American people, who have made it abundantly clear that they don’t want the federal government to take over our health care system.”