An industry loathed by the political left should cringe at audacious manipulations deployed in service to unpopular legislation for reform of US health care.At this writing, congressional leaders and the White House were doing everything and anything imaginable to push health-care reform past popular opposition clear in polls and elections.Under pressure from a president who has staked his reputation on the issue, House leaders wanted to vote on legislation by Mar. 21. Lacking enough support to pass a Senate bill that Americans have found repulsive in substance and style, they were resorting to parliamentary tricks. They would ask representatives to vote on a rule that "deemed" ...