Dr. J slams this one in:

Your Czarness,

I am slowly drifting from the paranoid wing into the uberparanoid wing of the anti-Obamacare right.

I have seen some folks suggesting that reconciliation may be a ruse to trick the house into passing the Senate bill.

I think that that assessment is dead on.

Recall that the democrats that voted against Sotero-care [sic] in the house did so because it wasn’t liberal enough. The Stupak amendment offended their sensibilities.

I suspect that they will have enough of them plus a handful of fair-weather Stupak’ers to get it passed.

Once it’s passed, the White House will sign the Senate bill and call off reconciliation because its too controversial, partisan and against the values of bipartisanship and compromise.

I think some of the House leadership is playing along in order to better herd their cats. After all, Speaker Pelosi had to ‘accept’ the abortion language in the Senate bill.

If it plays out this way, everyone (except the American People) wins:

Obama-care is passed
House Blue-dogs get to vote no, perhaps saving a few seats
Speaker Pelosi gets Obama-Care hold the Stupak amendment, although not with the mandatory “termination of all first pregnancies so everyone knows how it feels” language she wanted put in.
The Republicans get to reap great victories in November, but not big enough to repeal what has been sown (veto overrides and all).

You didn’t hear it here first, more like 15th, but I think that how it will play out.

Warmest Regards
Dr. J.
Mid-South Operative

The Czar thinks this is a much more sound strategy than reconciliation. So, the Czar asks, knowing that the President reads this site, whattaya doin’? You just gave him the answer!

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.