[NoobRep]

They need to keep pushing this angle.

[Parley Baer]

This and the recomit in the House will put the dimoKKKRATS in a bind come election time. They are stuck with the flaws in the Senate bill.

[C19fan]

It was all about plausible denability for the Donkeys.

[Oceander]

Very nice. I hope that pans out. If it does, I think we will suddenly see a rush of very stupid, very panicked democrats in the House trying to undo the Senate bill. Too late, though, we'll let them join in, and say sweet nothings to them, just to get them to go along, and then go ahead with the political bloodletting in November nonetheless.

Forget "Sunday, bloody Sunday" it's gonna be "Tuesday, bloody Tuesday."

[Steely Tom]

So what? All this means is that Obama signs the bill already passed by the Senate, and the reconciliation stuff goes down the tube. Which is what the leadership wants anyway. All the tools who put their “fixes” into the RB can have a fake conniption and tell their constituents “I tried.”

[Brilliant]

Even if the reconciliation bill doesn’t pass, the Senate bill will become law when the Dems pass it, and we’ll have socialized medicine.

[fightinJAG]

But what does this mean? That the Obamacare Senate bill passed by the House is not eligible to become law because the recconciliation bill is DOA, or that it becomes law and the Deems were “sandbagged” (which, BTW, is not likely - they were probably all in on it)?

[denydenydeny]

“Here’s the problem,” Santorum told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on Sunday evening, “according to the 1974 budget act, if the provisions in the bill affect Social Security revenues, it’s invalid for reconciliation.”

And this is a law, not just a "rule."

[Reagan69]

The House doesn’t care... they will just say, we voted for it in good faith, we can’t control what the Senate does.

[jakerobins]

Doesn’t matter....The democrat lemmings are committed to run over the cliff..and they intend to follow thru. This bill will NEVER see the Senate...I’ll bet seconds after is this thing is passed then it will be on it’s way to the White House. Barry and Nancy will probably be on the front page of most newspapers....SICKENING!! I personally would like to thank those Republicans that stayed home and those that decided to teach elected Republicans a lesson. By allowing the Dems to takeover Congress in 2006 and 2008 we will now have National Health Care.... We aren’t far off from Chavez....The President has taken over major industries and has nationalized health care.....I’m not so sure barry will leave even if voted out in 2012

[no dems]

And the House Dems were stupid enough to believe their Leadership.

[Gapplega]

Is he really that stupid to believe that there is any way to stop this? No wonder he lost his reelection campaign. What a bambi. Give me a break, we’re in the early stages of a dictatorship. BO and the rest of them couldn’t care less about votes, etc.

[pepsi_junkie]

Former GOP Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said Sunday that the House reconciliation bill designed to fix shortcomings in the Senate’s healthcare reform legislation cannot legally be considered by the Senate...

Don't give them this "fix shortcomings" language. That makes it sound desirable, like it will moderate the worst parts of the bill. This bill is to appease the commies that didnt think that bad Senate bill went far enough!

[PaleoBob]

reCONciliaton

[Lou L]

The Republicans would be wise to stay away from any related bill, offering any kind of “fix.” Even if one Repub votes for cloture to allow Dems to “reconcile” the HC bill, Obama and the Democratic Party will call the healthcare bill “bi-partisan.”