This'n'That; March 4th[Congress;Transparency]

Whadda Buncha Shlubs!!
[The obamacRATics need bi-partisanship so they have someone to blame when their fascist policies destroy democracy in America.  They can't even form a consensus among themselves; between the House and the Senate!!]
 Lawmakers are at an impasse over who should go first, and a lack of trust between obamacRATics in both chambers threatens to derail the effort in the final stretch. This is complicating an effort to use special rules to move the legislation with a simple majority vote in the Senate.

Each side is demanding that certain preconditions be met before acting.
“In coming days there will be an endgame strategy that will get a healthcare bill,” said a senior obamacRATic aide.
The shift in negotiations, from policy details to timing, signals lawmakers are largely in agreement on the substance of the final bill. The problem is that members of both chambers doubt their colleagues on the other side of the Capitol can be trusted to hold up any bargain.
In what may be a sign that obamacRATics are close to sending the "Clown Prince" his top legislative priority, republicRATs have issued strong warnings that the majority will pay dearly at the polls for using reconciliation to pass healthcare reform.
But before obamacRATics can focus on the opposing party, they must resolve the process of who goes first. The House must vote on both the broader Senate bill and on changes to the legislation contained in a “sidecar” measure. The Senate would only need to act on the changes.
The emerging strategy would have the House go first, clearing the Senate bill and passing the accompanying changes. Then Senate obamacRATics would consider the changes under a special budget process called reconciliation that enables them to pass the measure with a simple majority of votes. Those changes would have to be made under reconciliation because obamacRATics lack the votes needed to quash a GOP filibuster.
But the House does not want to take up the broader Senate bill without assurances that the Senate will act on the changes.
“Can the Senate bill be enacted prior to those changes being effected? I think it’s difficult to do so,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). “I think [colleagues] want some assurance that those items they have problems with are in fact modified before they vote for the Senate bill.
“I don’t know that it’s impossible, but it’s difficult,” said Hoyer, who attributed the wariness of House members to “experience” in dealing with their Senate colleagues.
The Senate, however, is not ready to make any promises to the House.
“Nobody is going to sign off on something they don’t know about,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who has jurisdiction over the reconciliation process.

"Clown Prince's" Version Of Transparency:
Jonathan Cohn with the New Republic, a liberal publication,  supplies some of the details of a secret note crafted in the Whiteout House:

"Inside Health Policy's Julian Pecquet and Amy Lotven report on a Democratic memo sketching out a timeline for passage of health care reform. The gist is pretty simple: The House takes up the Senate bill and passed it by March 19. A few days later it passes a reconciliation bill and sends it over to the Senate...."

This secret memo--penned long before barack hussein obama's obamaCare photo-op--proves that Fluffy's supposed willingness to "reach out to republicRATs" and listen to the American people was nothing more than a ruse.
It simply proves that shoving obamaCare down the throats of the American people, utilizing both stealth and force, was always the goal... and remains the goal.
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that at the same time that obama was supposedly "reaching out" to republicRATs; "... Rahm Emanuel, and top health policy adviser, Nancy Ann DeParle, went to Capitol Hill to meet with House Speaker nancy porklosi and Senate Democratic leader harry reid and prepare a final legislative package."
Later that day, Politico.com reported; "Sen. Tom Harkin told Politico that Senate obamacRATic leaders have decided to go the reconciliation route. ... Harkin made the comments after a meeting in Senate Majority Leader harry reid's office including Harkin and Sens. Baucus, Dodd, Durbin, Schumer and Murray."
So much for transparency. What we have is more trickery... more duplicity... more sleight-of-hand... and more back-room deals. We are only days away from watching the United States morph into a socialist nation, under the guise of health care, and the only thing... repeat... the only thing that stands in stands in the way of nancy porklosi, barack obama and harry reid's "cram-down job" is YOU.
Til Nex'Time....