No such luck, Andy. If the House votes for the bill this weekend, Obamacare becomes law. But it’s possible, even likely, that the House would then have to vote again on the reconciliation bill to modify Obamacare by repealing the Cornhusker kickback, enacting a few other kickbacks, etc. I suspect that getting that second bill through the House again, with modifications required to get it through the Senate reconciliation process, would not be as hard as getting over the hump this weekend. But it will require the House Democrats to keep talking about health care and corrupt deals rather than moving on. The Journal, I take it, is trying to get House Democrats to vote against the bill this weekend so as not to have to keep bleeding on the issue for several more weeks.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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