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  1. The thing Steyn doesn’t mention is that the statists of Canada and Europe were probably passed and appointed with wider margins of bipartisan support than Obamacare will likely receive. Nearly every single Republican and some Democrats have voted no to this overpriced package. It will be the moral wedge Europe never had in our attempts to repeal Obamacare. And I’m hoping it will be enough.

  2. I read an article yesterday on the Market Ticker which, to me anyway, offered a new explanation as to why the urgency to pass Obamacare:

    Captain, We Cannot Withstand Another Attack

    Excerpt:

    Everyone wants to talk about health care. Sorry folks, that’s a misdirection. A scam. It is simply a way to try to get more tax revenue – right now – to stave off a possible federal funding crisis. Treasury knows it, Obama knows it, and Congress knows it.

    They won’t tell you, but they know the truth.

  3. rickl, I followed your link. I thought the guy was goofy.

    The only thing that will stop the madness is when bondholders demand higher returns to compensate for the risk of insolvency. Paradoxically, that is not in the interest of current bondholders, especially foreign bondholders. On the other hand, if we inflate fast enough. they will have no choice.

    Interesting dilemma.

  4. There’s an aspect to reconciliation that I hadn’t considered:

    All of the talk about “reconciliation” seems to have distracted people – like a red herring – from a simple but crucial fact: If the House goes first, as now appears to be the plan, and passes the Senate health-care overhaul, the president would then have a bill in hand that had passed both houses of Congress, and – whether reconciliation subsequently succeeded or failed in the Senate – we would have Obamacare.

    Reconciliation would then be like the exhibition ice skating in the Olympics after the medals have been awarded: interesting to some, but wholly irrelevant to anything that really matters.

    National Review

    Who can doubt that Obama would sign the unreconciled Senate bill if the House passed it and then reconciliation bogged down for whatever reason?

    This puts the whole game on the House Democrats and the next vote.

  5. “This puts the whole game on the House Democrats and the next vote.”

    True. Reconciliation is a McGuffin. The real question is can Nancy round up enough votes who are willing to tell their constituents .. “I really thought there would be a reconciliation”.

  6. Please, does anyone think reconciliation is going to happen???? Please for God’s sake think again. Once the House passes this bill, Obama doesn’t need reconciliation. He will have a bill passed by the Senate and the House. All he has to do is sign it. And Obamacare becomes law. This is a very obvious act by him to stab his own party in the back. The house demos will have to live, and die with this crappy piece of legislation. But Obama doesn’t care. He will be a worthless piece of a one term embarrasment, but socialized medicine will live on.

  7. “This is a very obvious act by him to stab his own party in the back.”

    This only assumes that the Democrats are dupes in the whole thing. I guess if you *really* want to think they are as a whole, then OK, but I do not believe so (especially given that the Republicans were note duped). It is a version of “If only Joe knew” (referring to if only Stalin knew what was going on he would stop it). It’s not a case of if only the Dems knew what Obama wanted they would do something else – Obama is just one of the crowd.

    For whatever reason you want to come up with the Democrats see this as a winner – they are stabbing themselves in the back so to speak.

    Indeed, of all the high profile people involved I think Obama is probably the most ideologically committed to the idea – that is *he* is the one being stabbed in the back. I really do not think most Dems figure it is going to hurt them but will be put on the President. I think he believes in it so much that he thinks once passed people will love it. From that point if view he has “compromised” so much and can’t understand why it isn’t working and those Evil(TM) Republicans are obstructionist to the Utopia to come.

    Sadly I think that is a worse scenario than you describe – the highest office is the one being duped. Yet in this case I think it is true. I also think that Massachusetts opened a great deal of eyes that the fall isn’t going to totally be on the President and their jobs are at stake too.

    I rather suspect that if Pelosi knew she had the votes it would go now on the Senate version. Either that or they think it is going to be massive failure and need to have enough Republican support to hang it on their necks. I’m easy enough to consider either one to be the case that I will not argue against either.

  8. What Huxley said. Reconciliation is a distraction. All the important action now is the House vote. If they pass the Senate bill, anything else is window dressing.

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