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I'm wondering if anyone really understands how the reconciliation process will actually proceed in the Senate.

Here is why I think this is an important issue:

ObamaCare will die in the House unless the Senate and Harry Reid can convince the Stupak Pro-Life Caucus that they would, with certainty, modify the ultimate language in the law defining ObamaCare to outlaw abortion funding. To make such a guarantee Reid will have to prove that there is a majority in the Senate to do so. There is no way to prove that without an actual vote. Also Reid has to prove that the desired language change is legal under the Senate rules for a reconciliation bill. This is not a certainty. And then Reid has to prove that the Republicans won't stall the process in the Senate so that nothing ever gets settled.

IMHO, none of this can be proven to the Stupak Group with any credibility if the Senate cannot proceed formally with the reconciliation bill before the House votes on the original Senate Bill. Can they proceed? I don't know. What I do know is that they aren't and they took the weekend off.

So if anyone out there in Freeperland understands the actual process that the Senate will follow in constructing a reconciliation bill that goes beyond the normal back-room dealing should speak up.

They actually do not need to do reconciliation at all. All they have to do is lie to enough congress critters and convince them that the bill will be fixed in the Senate (reconciled) or it will not become law. Once they do that and the House approves the Senate version they will rush it over to Obummer who will sign it and the Senate bill then becomes law. Then they will keep adding more socialist measures in new bills until they achieve their complete Marxist agenda.

Reconciliation may be a smoke screen.

The key is to kill the Senate bill in the House now.

Freepers - please call your Democrat Reps (and all those wavering) and convince them to Kill the Bill.