After a week of debate over the process behind passing the potentially historic health care legislation before them, it appears that the Democrats in the House will now not be using the “deem and pass” method to move the bill through the house. Representatives Steny Hoyer and Tom Clyburn just announced to the press on Capital Hill that they expect to have the votes to pass the Senate bill deeming the “deem and pass” tactic unnecessary to pass the bill.

Bad news for Republicans should they be counting on using the Supreme Court as a last resort to block the Senate health care reform bill. Jeffrey Toobin visited Rick Sanchez today to talk about the chances of success Republicans will have if they try to legally oppose a “deem and pass” vote that would indirectly put the bill on the President’s desk, and he didn’t waste any time in telling the GOP that, quite simply, it’s not going to happen.

At yesterday’s White House briefing, the hot topic du jour was the House Democrats’ procedural “Deem and Pass” maneuver, also known as “Demon Pass,” the “Slaughter Rule,” and if I’m not mistaken, the “Cider House Rule?”  I’m not sure about that last one.

All this after Fox News’ Brett Baier spent a good chunk of his POTUS exclusive grilling the President on whether he supports the maneuver. Just to be thorough, I took a shot at the question with First Dog Bo Obama. Not surprisingly, he agreed with the President. Video after the jump.

The takeaway question from yesterday’s contentious sit-down interview between Fox News’ Bret Baier and President Obama: Was Baier guilty of unnecessarily interrupting the President, or was he simply keeping the President on track? We’ve already run down the mixed media reactions to the interview, and now Mediaite’s own Tommy Christopher asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for his thoughts on the interview.

Yesterday saw the unveiling of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hinting at a new strategy to get the health care reform bill railroaded in Congress: The “Deem and Pass” rule.

But MSNBC’s Chris Matthews takes issue with this plan: If the Democrats avoid a direct up or down vote on the bill, they would expose themselves to criticism of “pulling a fast one,” by allowing members of Congress to claim they didn’t support the reform bill in its entirety, and thereby avoid having to answer for their votes.

Remember the other week when the political phrase du jour was “reconciliation” and Rachel Maddow spent not a little amount of time illustrating how the Republicans who were in an uproar over the “nuclear option” were actually total hypocrites who had had no problem implementing the procedure when it suited there aims? Well, looks like the shoe is currently on the other foot (color us shocked).

Tthe House Democrats’ procedural “Deem and Pass” strategy (also known as the “Slaughter Rule” and “Demon Pass”) was a hot topic at today’s White House briefing, with the AP’s Ben Feller leading off with a series of questions that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs all but ignored. That didn’t prevent CNN’s Ed Henry from pressing Gibbs later in the briefing, in a textbook example of what White House reporters should do. Although he didn’t exactly get a straight answer, sometimes the non-answers can tell you something, too.

Some have called it the “slaughterhouse rule.” Others say “self-executing rule.” One Democratic Congressmen on FNC called it a “self-implementing rule.”

But here’s what you need to know about the new possible strategy by Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform, known as “deem and pass.”