Slaughter Your Chances At Re-Election!

The Senate passed an Obamacare bill that is now a political third rail. Nobody wants to pass it as-is, including, ostensibly, the President.

A universal healthcare reform scheme is a legislative idea whose time has come and gone in the House. With a Democrat majority, they can't get it passed because some of your Elected Heroes know it is political suicide AND a bad idea.

The President wants f-cking SOMETHING passed because, as Comrade Lenin said, "Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism." Obama really Really REALLY wants socialist medical insurance in America, and he knows he will have NO chance of getting it after the next mid-term election.

What to do?

The House would take for-e-ver to work up a new bill, and it probably wouldn't go far enough. The best they can hope for in the house is some of the Republicans' incremental ideas, not a whole-hog reform bill. This is unacceptable. You guys HAVE TO pass a universal bill. The only way to get one passed is to reconcile the vastly different Senate and House bills. Too bad, the House will never come to agree with the Senate on a compromise bill.

What to do?

RECONCILIATION! We'll pretend that it's legal to use the reconciliation process to pass a bill with 10 years of taxes for 6 years of "benefits!"

Can't get the votes for reconciliation. Not gonna fly. What to do?

Change the rules.

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Literally. The so-called Slaughter rule goes like this: The house votes to accept a rule change. The rule change says, "we DEEM the Senate bill to have passed, if we can get a bill passed that fixes the Senate bill." Shazam! Nobody has to vote to accept the flawed Senate bill!

This is probably illegal, but they will try it.

This IS a vote on the Senate bill but they think you are too stupid to see that.

What are you going to do about it?