Rank and file Democrats in the House may be coming around to the idea (noted below) of passing the Senate health-care bill along with a “reconciliation sidecar” that would take the place of a conference report.

From Greg Sargent:

Senior aides on both sides tell me that despite Nancy Pelosi’s claim that she doesn’t have the votes to pass the Senate health bill in the House, the Dem leadership still thinks it’s possible to win over enough House members to do it — if they’re convinced that fixing it through reconciliation is procedurally realistic.
This gets at an aspect of this whole discussion that’s been lost in the noise. Specifically, there’s good reason for many House Dems to say right now that they can’t vote for the Senate bill, even if it includes a “reconciliation fix”: The leadership has not persuasively made the case — yet — that such a fix can actually work.
Dem leaders on both sides are feverishly exploring a range of options, one of which includes drawing up a series of fixes to the Senate bill that would be passed through the Senate via reconciliation along with the Senate bill passing the House — the reconciliation “sidecar,” as it has been called.
Aides on both sides think that House Dems might be persuaded to support this route if the procedural ins-and-outs are laid out for them convincingly in, say, a document. After all, why declare support for this course of action before this case is made?
“Say you’re a House member who’s worried about his own political stuff,” one senior Senate aide says. “You need to be convinced that, whatever this is, it can work. They’re not gonna get to the point [where they might support it] until they see that piece of paper.”
A senior House aide adds that things could change with that piece of paper, pointing out that leadership wouldn’t be discussing this option if they didn’t remain persuaded that House Dems could still support it in big enough numbers for it to pass.

I don’t know about you folks, but I’m starting to feel like I could use a reconciliation sidecar myself, easy on the ice. I wonder what sort of hooch you’d put in such a concoction. No doubt it would be “dirty” and muddled, and leave a long, stinging aftertaste.