The machinations continue by President Obama and Congressional Democrats to pass health reform legilsation, Obamacare. It is obvious that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not have the votes to pass this massive government takeover of American health care.

But, whether these parliamentary manuvers will stand up in a court challenge is another matter.

The Senate Parliamentarian has ruled that President Barack Obama must sign Congress’ original health care reform bill before the Senate can act on a companion reconciliation package, senior GOP sources said Thursday.

The Senate Parliamentarian’s Office was responding to questions posed by the Republican leadership. The answers were provided verbally, sources said.

House Democratic leaders have been searching for a way to ensure that any move they make to approve the Senate-passed $871 billion health care reform bill is followed by Senate action on a reconciliation package of adjustments to the original bill. One idea is to have the House and Senate act on reconciliation prior to House action on the Senate’s original health care bill.

Information Republicans say they have received from the Senate Parliamentarian’s Office eliminates that option. House Democratic leaders last week began looking at crafting a legislative rule that would allow the House to approve the Senate health care bill, but not forward it to Obama for his signature until the Senate clears the reconciliation package.

The biggest challenge though for the Democrats will be the negative political fallout from ramming this legislation through without any sense of bipartisan consensus. The fallout will mean massive Democrat Pary losses at the November midterm Congressional elections with a concomitant reversal of the legislation.

The “White Coat” prop used by Obama was certainly revealing. The President must use cheap symbolism to sell his government takeover of American health care.

Will it work?

Let’s see how many “White Coats” continue to practice medicine under Obamacare? With the scheduled Medicare cutbacks and the massive tax increases there will be little incentive for physicians to work. Rationing of health care and scarcity will be the norm as the government attempts to train medical auxiliaries to replace the doctors.

I wonder how long before the SEIU unionizes the government supported phsyicans?

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Sam, some wives would be threatened when an EX military cohort of the husband was a partner in a business enterprise, namely the Florida Bar. Zed has enough of a real life bad dream happening at present.

Talking about “bad dreams” what about President Obama’s health care summit yesterday?

Via Hengler, a succinct statement of Jay Nordlinger’s point and of what I suspect will be the media consensus tomorrow. Not the only kind words he had for the GOP either:

The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that again here today. That would revive health care and would change the public opinion about their health care bill and they can go on to victory. Just the opposite has happened.

I watched the health care summit for a little whiole before I was off to the dental clinic and practiced real life health care – in the trenches, so to speak. From what I saw, Obama looked defensive, spiteful and “in your face, I am doing it my way anyway.”

If Congressional Democrat leaders were hoping that the President would mesmerize the country into providing them cover for budget reconciliation passage of Obamacare with a public option, they failed miserably.

Obamacare today appears to be just as dead as it was prior to the summit. Watch the Democrats in marginal House districts run for cover and strat repudiating Obama.

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America has definitely awoken from the fantasies of President Barack Obama. Hope and Change, my posterior. Obama has delivered on BIG GOVERNMENT and redistribution – spreading the wealth around – just like he told Joe the Plumber.

But, in the meantime, the President has begun to plot his re-election strategy while his poll numbers are in the dumpster.

President Barack Obama’s top advisers are quietly laying the groundwork for the 2012 reelection campaign, which is likely to be run out of Chicago and managed by White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, according to Democrats familiar with the discussions.

The planning for now consists entirely of private conversations, with Obama aides at all levels indulging occasionally in closed-door 2012 discussions while focusing ferociously on the midterm elections and health care reform, the Democratic sources said. “The gathering storm is the 2010 elections,” one top official said.

But the sources said Obama has given every sign of planning to run again, and wants the next campaign to resemble the highly successful 2008 effort.

Watch the health care summit on Thursday for the latest themes of fantasy from the Obama re-election team.

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No, Chris!

You want to keep President Obama talking and the State of the Union address is a perfect way to demonstrate how his Administration policies have been a disaster for America. Despite the hype and the rhetoric, Obama’s poll numbers are in a free fall downward and he is flailing about for ways to aid the American economy.

Now, after spending the federal government blind and raising taxes, Obama is talking about proposing a federal budget spending freeze. What about Obamacare?

Obamacare would be the greatest increase in entitlement spending ever and the tax increases to pay for it would be huge.

The fact is the President does NOT know what he wants except the ability to stay in office for himself and his cronies on the LEFT.

PLUS CA CHANGE

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