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Today, perhaps by the time you read this, Congress may have voted in a way that both saddles us with Obamacare and lets House members deny they did so.

Congress planned to resort to this trick, in which this vast reordering of America is presumed to have passed when it hadn't, because Democrats felt they couldn't muster a majority for a vote on the actual bill.

Threats and bribes were ongoing, so whether Congress really would blow off the Constitution wasn't clear as of this writing. The president earlier said this insider process wasn't central; the content of the bill is. He was right. The reek of what Obamacare does overwhelms the rottenness of how it's...