There’s been a lot of talk about the Baucus health bill in Congress.  This is the “budget neutral” health care package that “only” costs $820 billion over 10 years.  The Senate has been teasing out elements of the alleged legislation (allegislation?) trying to pick up support for the bill.

However, William Jacobsen, professor of law at Cornell has just dropped this little bomb.  There is no bill!!! Not a line of legislative code written.  It’s vaporware of the finest sort!  The Senate is selling us a bill that does not exist.

What I suspect they will do is bait and switch at some point, changing the sponsor of the current disaster they’ve had the special interests write, change the bill number to disguise the fact, then vote on it through reconcilliation in the middle of the night.