From Mark Tapscott, March 12th Washington Examiner:

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have never before been asked to pass legislation by “deeming” it approved under a House rule instead of following the process required by the U.S. Constitution in which they actually vote on the proposal itself, according to a senior aide to House Republicans.The procedure – dubbed by critics as the “Slaughter Solution” – is the brain-child of House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who, at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, is trying to fashion a rule that would allow the House to move toward passage of a health care reform bill without a recorded vote on the Senate version.Like the Senate, which adopted its health care reform measure on Christmas Eve, the House passed its version last year. But there are major differences between the two measures, especially concerning federal funding of abortions. The Senate version includes billions of dollars to fund new health care clinics that would offer abortion services. The House bill was passed only after Rep. Bart Stupak’s amendment barring federal funding for the procedure was included.Slaughter’s approach would bring to the House floor a reconcilliation bill to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of health care reform with the rule deeming the House to have approved the Senate version. The GOP aide, who requested anonymity, said a search of the House archives failed to reveal any previous use of the Slaughter Solution.I’m betting that you can’t provide a link that shows that Bush 43 passed ANY kind of tax cut bill with as much significance as the Obamacare bill, through a reconciliation procedure like the Slaughter Solution.

Reconciliation has been used by both parties in the past—for bills that had already been voted on.  From today’s National Review Online:

The “self-executing rule” has indeed been used extensively by both parties, but in most cases it is used to insert amendments into a bill without floor debate or a separate up-or-down vote. (This is just one of the many ways the House Rules Committee stacks the deck against dissent and makes the House—not the Senate—the undemocratic body. But that’s another story.)
By contrast, the Democrats want to use a self-executing rule to pass legislation without debate, amendment, or an yea-or-nay vote. This is far rarer. Mostly, it’s done via the “Gephardt Rule,” which automatically passes a measure raising the federal debt ceiling by the amount required in a given year’s budget (thus avoiding a separate, embarrassing vote for members).

When bills are “deemed” passed outside the Gephardt Rule, it is usually for the purpose of rubber stamping minor tweaks to conference reports, or for disposing of internal and/or technical matters that affect only the House. In fact, according to the Rules Committee Republicans, only four times in the last 20 years has a “deeming” rule been used to send legislation directly to the president’s desk — including one bill to raise the debt limit, and one to rubber-stamp “Byrd Rule” modifications to a reconciliation bill.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDE1MDE3MDJlMTQ3MDZmNTk5MTczMGUyYjczYzdiZTc=

Gee, Left—sure sounds as if you’ve been misleading to me…

yet that seems to be today’s mantra from the minority that lost the election.

Hey tip, if your Democrats can’t shoot straight, don’t get mad at we conservatives and Republicans.

The Dems have the White House, huge majorities in Congress—and you still can’t pass this healthcare bill!

The Speaker of the House is having to resort to a parliamentary trick, in which the House would pass Obamacare without actually voting on it,  even though she has a seventy-seat majority!

Y’all are the Apple Dumpling Gang of American politics.