RECONCILIATION DECOY

[Your Uncle Sam]

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IF The HOUSE PASSES THE CHRISTMAS EVE VERSION of THE SENATE HEALTHCARE REFORM BILL, The GAME IS OVER and THE AMERICAN PEOPLE LOSE.  IF,On The Other Hand The HOUSE REJECTS THE ORIGINAL SENATE BILL THE

BATTLE is OVER.

Opponents of Obama’s so-called health care reform are understandably
up in arms at the president’s embrace of reconciliation as a way to
force changes to his bill through the Senate. --It feels as if Scott
Brown’s election had never happened. Reconciliation, part of the
budget process designed to raise or lower revenues or spending, was
never designed as a way to change the rules to pass controversial
policy changes that otherwise would fail for lack of 60 votes needed
to invoke cloture. But as outrageous as reconciliation is, ultimately
it’s a distraction, and free-market activists who focus on it may miss
the real fight in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether or not the Senate passes changes
to its health care bill via reconciliation. That’s because the
RECONCILLIATION Process CAN NOT Even BEGIN Until AFTER The House
Passes the Senate bill exactly as it passed the Senate on Christmas
Eve. That means it must pass with the abortion language already
rejected by Rep. Bart Stupak and others still intact. It also must
pass with the outrageous pork barrel spending deals cut for Nebraska,
Louisiana, Connecticut, and others. In other words, the bill must pass
the House with everything in it that the American people have already
made clear they hate.

As a practical matter, the Senate has no reason to take another
politically risky vote unless that House has already proven it has the
votes to pass the core vehicle, the Christmas Eve version of the
Senate bill. -- At this point it’s far from clear that Nancy Pelosi
can get the 216 votes she needs to get it passed. More importantly, as
a procedural matter, the Senate almost certainly cannot even proceed
to a reconciliation bill by making changes to the Christmas Eve bill
if it hasn’t already been enacted into law. The Joint Committee on
Taxation (JCT), which creates the official cost estimates of the tax
changes in federal legislation, has said it cannot and will not
provide cost estimates for a reconciliation health care bill unless
the underlying bill has already been passed by the House. Without
those scores, it’s impossible to determine if the reconciliation bill
meets the requirements of the budget process.

North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Senate Budget
Committee, put it pretty bluntly: “I don't know of any way, I don't
know of any way where you can have a reconciliation bill pass before
the bill that it is meant to reconcile passes. I don't know how you
would deal with the scoring. I don't know how I could look you in the
eye and say this package reduces the deficit. It's kind of got the
cart before the horse.”

So the HOUSE HAS TO GO FIRST. And the HOUSE VOTE IS ALL THAT MATTERS.
If the SENATE PASSES THE HOUSE BILL Obama Will SIGN It and It Will
Be the LAW of The LAND. Maybe the Senate will make some tweaks to it
via reconciliation. Maybe they won’t. Ultimately it won’t matter,
because either way vast new taxes will be imposed to support over 100
new regulatory entities that will give Washington the power to
micromanage every aspect of our health care. Either way we’ll all be
forced -- under threat of incarceration -- to buy expensive health
insurance from favored private insurance companies, whether we want it
or not. In other words, if the House passes the Christmas Eve Senate
bill, the game is up and the American people lose. If, on the other
hand, the House rejects the original Senate bill, it’s all over.

So as outrageous as the RECONCILLIATION Maneuver maneuver is, it’s
Uultimately INCONSEQUENTIAL. RECONCILLIATION is a BRIGHT SHINY OBJECT
Designed to DISTRACT OPPONENTS from the FIGHT that REALLY MATTERS.
That REAL FIGHT is In The HOUSE, and Will Be Over, in victory or
defeat, BEFORE THE SENATE DOES or DOESN'T USE RECONCILLIATION ! ! !
! ! ! !.

In his latest health care speech on Wednesday President Obama said
this fight over health care is ultimately about what kind of country
we want to be. He’s exactly right. But unlike President Obama and his
extreme left-wing allies, most Americans prefer the American system of
free markets and individual responsibility to the false security of a
cradle-to-grave, European-style welfare state. That’s what hangs in
the balance on the biggest health care vote in decades, or maybe ever.
And that vote will be in the House, not the Senate.

Phil Kerpen is vice president for policy at Americans for Prosperity.
He can be reached on Twitter, Facebook, and through
www.philkerpen.com.
Listen to a related two-minute KerpenCast here.
http://kerpen.dl.hipcast.com/deluge/ff619379-2b67-f75f-546e-4a6521f...
ALSO SEE-------- http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35862

[Emil J Milano]

Uncle Sam, please let me make this clear to all. I am not an ordained Pastor and have never claimed to be. I was an Elder under three Pastors and was invited to go for my Pastoral papers which I declined due to politics and the church. I did preach, teach, lay hands and many other things under the anointing but never ordained by men as a Pastor.

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