Reconciliation Can't be Used Until After Obama Signs HealthCare Bill

A serious and perhaps even fatal blow to the Dems, socialized medicine and the Marxist in the White House.

Senate Republican sources say the Senate parliamentarian -- who essentially acts as the Senate referee -- has shot down the Democrats' latest strategy for passing a final bill, CBS News Capitol Hill Producer John Nolen reports.

Democrats were planning on bypassing Republican obstruction -- as well as reaching a compromise on the legislation within their own party -- with a multi-step process: The House would pass the health care bill already approved by the Senate. Then, both the House and Senate would pass a "fix it" bill that would amend the Senate bill. The "fix it" bill would pass the Senate via a process called reconciliation, which only requires 51 votes.

The strategy was complicated from the beginning, but according to Republicans, the Senate parliamentarian is now saying that President Obama would have to sign a health care bill into law before Congress can amend it with a reconciliation measure. 

Of course, the Democrats are busy re-writing legislative procedure to further trump democracy:

The House could still pass the Senate bill, but House Democrats unhappy with the Senate version wanted to ensure the reconciliation measure would not be abandoned. There was discussion of crafting a legislative procedure for the House to vote on a reconciliation measure that automatically passed the Senate bill, so that House members would not even have to vote on the separate, politically damaging Senate bill. (There has been little discussion of the Senate passing the House bill.)
From the start, it was clear that not all of the Senate bill's problems could necessarily be fixed through reconciliation. The process of reconciliation is meant exclusively for budget-related items, so it was questionable whether it could be used to amend the Senate bill's abortion language, for instance. A group of House Democrats wants to change the Senate bill so its abortion funding rules are more restrictive.

It will be interesting to watch Obama grant constructive permission to corrupt the process to  institute the tyranny or Marxism.   It's getting harder and harder for him to look innocent.