So much heat as attended the substance of the Ryan Budget that some may have failed to note that his budget resolution carries a reconciliation motion.

The same filibuster defense that was ultimately successfully used to obviate the Repugnants' intractable resistance to any policy with Prez's name on it, including one with Heritage Foundation Grandparents (viz, individual health insurance mandate...)

Anyway, there was no budget resolution in 2010, which is part of  how Prez got backed into the continuing resolution dilemma cum debt ceiling crisis that kneecapped him last summer.

That Boehner (who Matt Bai says may be coming after our social security again soon...) wants a reconciliation clause is curious, since you would think that normally the filibuster would come from the Repugnant minority, moved by the search for some procedural advantage 

But a reconciliation motion would potentially operate to prevent a rump minority of progressive democratic senators from blocking an unholy alliance of lame ducks like Holy Joe and Greasy Palms Ben Nelson, with the Repugnant minority, getting to 51 and hooking up with a re-elected legacy whore President.

I got a bad feeling about this...