The Reconciliation Feint

There has recently been discussion in the media of what may well be the real intentions of Wonderboy's administration with respect to the health care legislation currently bottled up among Democrats in Congress.

Simply put, the developing realization is of a House passage of the Senate's bill, followed by.....Barry signing it!

No reconciliation. No amendments. Nada.

In fact, imagine Harry Reid crowing that he never had to do something so questionable as pass financial amendments to the Senate's bill, 51-49, in order to cram health care down America's throat.

Instead, Frisco Nan and Wonderboy will have conspired to make lots of promises to House Democrats. And then promptly renege. Or claim Harry Reid reneged, so it's not their fault.

See the beauty of this for the First Rookie and his Congressional leaders? Everyone can point to someone else as the fall guy/gal, while, in reality, once that Senate bill passes the House, it can become law.

Period. End of story.

No amendments or changes needed. Rather than wait for the Senate to take its marching orders from the likes of Bart Stupak or other House Democrats, Wonderboy can simply announce that someone put a bill on his desk that passed both Houses. So he will sign it.

Think it can't happen? Think again.

There is literally no process on earth that can guarantee House members that, having passed the Senate bill, any of their concerns will actually be honored.

Stupak even said as much in an interview earlier this week.

Makes for a much more interesting endgame, doesn't it? So much so that the Wall Street Journal's editorial on the piece likened Wonderboy to pulling a 'double game' on his own Congressional party members, calling to mind a John Le Carre novel.

Pretty apt comparison.