Dave's Droppings

I am sick of hearing all this talk about the Senate pushing for “reconciliation” of their bill.

Take a minute for some elementary school level understanding of how the political process works.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/government/howabillbecomesalaw.htm 

1. The House passes a bill
2. The Senate passes a bill
3. If the bills are different they have a conference to iron out the differences then…
4. Each Chamber again votes on the new language
5. If the Legislation passes both Chambers it goes to the President for his signature

Now let’s look at how this plays with ObamaCare 

1. The House passed a bill
2. The Senate passed a bill
3. They are NOT having a conference to iron out the differences
4. They are telling the House to pass the Senate’s bill and THEN Reid and Pelosi say they will
5. Remove the items the House does not like (Cornhusker kickback, etc…) and put in things they do want (no funding of abortion language, etc…) from the bill they just passed and the Senate will then vote again on this “reconciled” bill.  Presupposing that the Senate Parliamentarian allows these changes as part of this reconciliation.
6. Then the House would have to vote again on this new Senate bill to replace the bill they just voted for.

Here is what I predict will happen IF the House does indeed pass the Senate’s rushed through bill from December.

There will be too many items that the Parliamentarian will rule impermissible for budget reconciliation and the Senate will be unable to then actually pass a “reconciliation” bill that could also pass in the House.  Then Nancy, Harry and Barack will say well we tried and just could not iron out the differences and it’s all the Republicans fault.  Therefore, Barack will “reluctantly” sign the House approved Senate bill because they “have” to pass something.