Do you think you know what "reconciliation" is? I'll bet you don't. It isn't reconciling differences between House and Senate health care bills. It's actually budget reconciliation, which amends an already-passed budget law to conform with a previously passed budget resolution to reduce deficits.
But ObamaCare isn't a budget bill, hasn't passed, isn't being brought into conformance with a budget resolution and increases rather than reduces deficits. So budget reconciliation isn't applicable. The Democrats know that but don't care. When the Senate parliamentarian rules it illegal, Joe Biden, as president of the Senate, will overrule him.
It gets worse. Under the Slaughter "deem scheme," they'll discard the House bill and "deem" the Senate bill to have passed the House, without House members actually voting on it. I'm not kidding! Never in history has a bill been deemed enacted without being passed in identical form by both House and Senate. It's blatantly unconstitutional. Article 1 of the Constitution requires that "every bill" that becomes law "shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate" before it goes to the president to be signed.
