HCR Passes

[Alex]

If he doesn't can the reconciliation bill even advance? I thought the parliamentarian ruled the existing bill could not be amended until the first had been signed into law.

And scaeagles, to address your question:

I do suppose, though, that I don't understand why opposition is blamed on conservative "fear mongering". Do the 50+ percent of the population that is opposed to this listen to this conservative "fear mongering"?

David Frum seems to place a fair bit of the blame at the feet of Republican fear mongering and he's hardly sympathetic to Obama.