How would stopping the “fix” kill the whole bill? The way I understand it, the original Senate bill would now be law and they (the Senate) would just say, “Oh, well......”
"If Republicans can get the parliamentarian to agree with them even once, whatever ultimately passes the Senate will have to go back to the House. And Democrats in the House quietly admit that its very likely they will have to vote again on the reconciliation fixes at some point down the road."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/03/senate-fight-starts-gop-says-senate-parliamentarian-will-kill-fixits-bill.html
If there's any hope it's that the whole thing is so convoluted, we're bound to see more options opening up to fight it. Personally I don't see how the Rec bill being used to deem and pass (if struck down) could still stand to qualify the 'deemed' Senate bill as validly passed. So if there is a chance to invalidate the Rec bill on the basis of that 301 point of order Senate thing, then who the heck knows.. Man this is bullshit. I hope I'm making sense.