Obama and Dems Still Threatening Reconciliation

Obama allegedly has his team writing health care legislation aimed at reconciling the differences between the House and Senate bills, which he is threatening to attach to a budget bill to avoid a Republican filibuster. The White House blankly stated that it will attempt the process if Republicans fail to agree to certain bill stipulations that would allow passage via the legitimate route. The president's proposal will apparently be available on the internet by Monday and might still contain certain features such as the expansion of coverage to 30 million, the requirement that Americans carry insurance or face financial penalties, and the provision to block insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical conditions. If the process next week ends in a stalemate between Republicans and Democrats, and Obama and Pelosi attempt reconciliation, which is widely opposed by Americans, I predict a failure to garner the necessary votes in both chambers and the last and most devastating of Obama's public embarassments. It is already certin in the Senate that Nelson, Lincoln, Lieberman, Bayh, Landrieu and Byrd will not support such manipulative, subversive tactics and I predict at least a handful more senators will be compelled to vote "no" based on polling data which suggests that Americans are wholly against it.