Normally i don’t like to see strategy announced in advance.
But in this case, it is imperative that we give details of our strategy, and that we demonstrate that it will work.
Because the fight here is to convince the House democrats that they CANNOT COUNT ON reconciliation turning out the way they want.
That is the battle. If the house democrats THINK they can trust reconciliation, they WILL pass the senate health bill, and it will become law.
After that, blocking reconciliation will be a pretty much useless endeavor. And in fact, we might WANT to support reconciliation at that point, because it might well make the senate bill better.
Think about that — if the Senate bill IS LAW, would we oppose a reconciliation that eliminated payoffs for states, added 4 ideas the republicans wanted, and fixed the abortion funding (not saying these area what will be in reconciliation, just showing how it might well be in the republican interest to support reconciliation).
This is the real problem here. We have already gotten a bill past the 60-vote threshold. That bill is a disaster. But if the house votes on it, it will be law, and that will be the new baseline for our actions.
If the hosue democrats figure that out, and decide they can live with whatever we throw into reconciliation, they might be convinced to pass the senate bill.
So it is imperative that we show them how we will change the reconciliation to make it unacceptable to them.
And it is important we make the democrats pay for voting for the original senate bill while pretending they would get another shot at fixing it or stopping it later.
If the Bill reaches the Senate for Reconciliation, it has passed the House and would become Law, and that is the Democrats REAL goal.
The whole bill is bad, Charles. It’s all detrimental to our country. It’s the curtain coming down on the American Experiment. It’s the triumph of our enemies. It’s the victory they couldn’t win when they fought us externally, but think they can win with their Traitor Pelosi and their Communist Obama from within.
STOP IT!!!!! Don’t compromise with it! You are playing footsie with the devil if you do.