Five Hypocrites and One Bad Plan

Wrong.



Your blind devotion is so strong that you can't even see past the illogic of your question.



Reconciliation is used for bills that will require modifications to or make a substantial impact on the Federal budget. To qualify, certain committees in the House have to perform studies to assess this impact. At least one of those committees did that work.



The public option would require huge changes to the Federal budget. There's no question that the public option would qualify for reconiliation - the only debated reconciliation pieces were surrounding the NON-public-option versions because elements such as pre-existing conditions and exchanges don't have any direct budgetary impact.



In fact, you can answer your own groundless challenge by going back to news articles from that period and re-reading about the debates on using reconciliation - there was angst over this because the funding for uninsured would go through reconciliation but the fallout of a reconciliation run for funding would threaten regulations on private insurers.



So perhaps you're confusing that junky, compromised mess that got passed didn't completely qualify for reconciliation with versions that did. On that front, there has been plenty of documented debate for you to find ways to avoid.



But your point is that Obama was helplessly without votes. And the fact is that he didn't try to get good policy adopted because he wanted republican love. Unfortunately for us all, wherever he goes, Obama is the weakest man in the room.
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