OUCH - Getting It Done: The Year In Obama-Led Health Care Reform

Watch the video -- hilarious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aOILuS1i_M&feature=player_embedded

The time for games has passed
Now is the time to deliver on healthcare
We are going to get this done, this year
This is our moment to deliver
I am absolutely confident this is gonna pass

blah blah blah

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NWY0MTE2NzI2MmZmZTIxM2QxMzQ3NzUzNTMyNzQ0NWY=


Reality Check [Victor Davis Hanson]

It was fanciful for the president on the eve of this week's election to warn that the direction of his agenda would be predicated on the outcome in Massachusetts — and then, roughly 24 hours later, send his operatives out to assure everyone that Scott Brown's victory had not much to do with anything in Washington.

When the most interviewed, photographed, and talkative president in recent history insists that his problems are a result of neglecting to communicate with the American people ("We lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people"), something seems unhinged. All that deception and contradiction do nothing to mitigate the popular outrage against Obama's broken promises on everything from airing the health-care debate on C-Span to closing down Guantanamo this week. The growing denial of reality is really hard to juxtapose with the effectiveness of Obama's 2008 campaign; it almost reminds one of Nixon's slick 1972 CREEP campaign followed by his descent into "Let me be perfectly clear" denials during much of 1973. Perhaps, in a way, it all makes perfect sense: The arrogance instilled by a successful campaign leads to excess that finishes in nemesis.


Gallup Poll: Americans Want Congress to Shelve Obamacare [Daniel Foster]

A majority of Americans favor Congress discontinuing work on health-care reform and instead considering alternatives with bipartisan support, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll. Only 39 percent of Americans think Congress should continue to try to pass some version of current bill.
The poll was conducted the day after Scott Brown's election to the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, and 72 percent of respondents say Brown's victory reflects America's frustrations with Washington.

Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of Republicans (87 percent) favor stopping work on the bill. But notable is that a majority of independents (56 percent) and a not-insignificant number of Democrats (26 percent) also think the bill should tabled.

And in a clear rebuke of President Obama's decision to make health-care reform the centerpiece of his legislative agenda in his first year in office, a sizeable majority of respondents say that health-care should not be the president's top priority: 46 percent say it should be subsidiary to other, more pressing concerns, while 19 percent say it should not be a major priority at all.

UPDATE: A Rasmussen poll shows even more opposition to health-care:
Sixty-one percent (61%) of U.S. voters say Congress should drop health care reform and focus on more immediate ways to improve the economy and create jobs.