Actually, I don’t think Obama really cares about one or the other, so he’d have no reason to veto reconciliation.
The people who care are the senators who are getting screwed by Reid (who gave Reid 60 votes in exchange for things in the bill that Reid now says he can REMOVE with 50 votes).
And the house, which has to approve the Senate bill as-is, knowing that whatever Reid promises them, they can’t make him do it, and realising that if Reid promises a reconciliation bill, Reid will be screwing his friends in the Senate to do so.
If you were a house member, and you knew Reid had to screw somebody, would you bet that he’d screw other senate members, or you?
You might be right. I only said I wouldn’t put it past him to do that.