Clever?

Yglesias 1, Lizza + Frum 0 | The Daily Caller: "Who says Romney won’t be able to repeal Obamacare? Ryan Lizza and David Frum argue that a President Romney won’t be able to repeal Obamacare, in part because the GOPs won’t have a veto-proof majority in the Senate. Matt Yglesias says Lizza and Frum are wrong. I’m with Yglesias.

After all, why couldn’t Republicans use the “reconciliation” process to get around a Dem filibuster? Lizza says:

But reconciliation wouldn’t work here—the process can only be used for policies that have budgetary effects and a C.B.O. score. Much of the A.C.A., such as the insurance exchanges and subsidies, would fall under these categories. But a lot of it, including the hated individual mandate, does not. Repealing the exchanges and subsides without repealing the mandate and the other regulations and cost controls in the law would create a health-care Frankenstein that a President Romney would be rather nuts to support.

Huh? The individual mandate is a tax! The Supreme Court has now told us. Maybe the Senate parliamentarian calls it something else–but whatever you call it, it raises revenue and repealing it would have a budgetary effect, and hence be reconciliationable"

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