But he made it clear yesterday that the Senate bill would include a public option “or something like it” and that he would pass the bill via reconciliation if needed. So until yesterday Obama didn’t have assurance that the Senate could pass a bill with a public option.

Obama can sell any fantasy he wants, but his world isn’t the real world.

For example, today as I left a home-school co-op the daycare was letting out at the church where it is held. The parents were lining up to pick up their kids. Now this is middle to upper middle income area.

I counted fifty plus vehicles waiting, 49 were SUV’s for some kind, from a small Ford Escape to the Navigator. All occupied by w/f’s in their thirties to forties.

Only one drove a red VW bug, and she was young and had an Obama sticker on her bumper. (Which, on a side note, how many of you when you see someone with an Obama sticker on their car just want to roll down your window and scream, “HOW’S THAT WORKING OUT FOR YOU!!!”)

On the way home, I stopped by the store and was walking across the parking lot when I hear Rush’s voice coming from a car. In it was a elderly man with a very serious look on his face as he listened to Rush talk about healthcare.

No, Obama may want to change the face of the nation, but he’s has bitten off an awful big chunk in the attempt.

Hope he chokes.

Per Fox News about an hour ago. No way the House will vote on this legislation now, let alone pass it because the legislation will die in the Senate. That would leave a huge anchor on Blue Dog democrats, particularly those who are hung with their Cap and Trade vote. Any Senate bill coming out of Baucus’ committee, IF even one comes out, would be squashed in the House by the Progressive Caucus because of the lack of a public option. This could be the death of Obamacare but we’ll have to wait and see. Stay vigilant!

he is going to “regretfully” can this aspect of his plan, in exchange for more concessions than he would otherwise have gotten, “in the interest of bipartisanship”? If he’s going to go this route, and the American people are against it, it’s time for us to play hardball, and not cave to a compromise.

We’ll see if this speech marks a fundamental change in strategy (taking off his Clark Kent outfit and revealing himself to be SuperMarx) or just another tactic dud in service of a failing strategy of trying to disguise his identity.

Obama is at his most effective when he actually speaks from his heart, because that is when he show passion, which is the most glaring deficit in most of his speeches that has been turning people off in droves with overexposure.

So if Obama releases himself from his shackles of caution, reveals himself as SuperMarx and gets to say what he really wants (which I am sure is single-payer, government-run healthcare), then he will be able to make a difference in the debate. I don’t know if that will be a game-changer, but if he follows up with more passionate speeches, risking that he might lose – he ironically will have the best shot of shifting votes.

It all depends on where the country is at.

However, if Obama continues with his public Clark Kent routine, his cover all bases, leave escape hatches open method of operation that he has been practicing (out of fear that he might end up of the losing side) so that he can claim to have been on the winning side, whatever that might be, then things will continue downhill – and his speech will be a memorable bonbon as he moves himself closer to irrelevance with another passionless speech.

There’s only so long that one can act successfully without conviction, and Obama’s fast reaching that point in his speeches.

If they cant get co-ops in the Senate. There will be little to negotiate in committee.

The next phase is a voluntary test option. This will allow pols from states with insurance companies to vote for the bill because their states can opt-out like Maine and Arkansas, while a test option takes root in places like California.

Wouldn’t it be a better idea to WAIT to consider a healthcare plan AFTER: We see

1. what will become of the economic stimulus plan. So far, the Obama branch of this porker give-away has done virtually nothing to stimulate the economy. The American economy, at the control of Obama, is failing.

2. what will become of the TARP loans. Will GM default on the aprox. 81 Billion dollars and how will this affect the U.S. budget and deficit.

3. what will become of Social Security, slated to come crashing down in a few short years. That’s when the greater bulk of baby-boomers will definitively retire and cause the boat to list.

4. will home and auto sales rebound, because right now there is nothing going on in either market. The “clucker” program did nothing to substantially aid the American car markers — although it did help our foreign auto maker friends. Let’s wait and make certain that these extremely crucial markets recover before leaping into massive healthcare overhauls.

5. what will happen with the current business downturn and unemployment. Obama assured that there would be no greater average unemployment than 8%, and we are at 10%. In some areas of the country inflation is double-digits, 14, 16, 20 percent.

6. what will need to be done to cure the rocketing high deficits.

7. what will happen when, since the timing is right, the Ron Pauls will get their way and audit the Federal Reserve. Recall what happened when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac coughed-up.

8. what will be the tax rate consequences due to the unrestrained spending spree of the past 24 months. Trillions of dollars will have to be paid in increased taxes. There’s talk about adding a value added tax; will this be in addition to the progressive tax? Will there be a tax revolution, all of which could mean that the funds for a national government controlled health plan could be severely limited. This would translate into exceedingly limited services in health care for people.

9. what will happen if $500 Billion are taken from Medicare. Take it now and wait to see what happens. Besides everything short of full anarchy by the elderly, this is adding much more stress to an already stressed system.

Don’t be surprised that Obama, on his 112th “new” pitch to sell his (snake oil) health plan, will offer nothing substantial; and, certainly nothing that could not wait until prudently we resolve each and every issue mentioned. American’s are saying they are fine with the insurance and health care arrangements they currently have. Perhaps leaving well enough alone is best. Certainly, over the summer we have seen what “it could be worse” looks like, and nobody cares for Socialism in the U.S.A.

the biggest whopper we’ll hear repeated, IMO, will of course be that HC REFORM WILL NOT INCREASE THE DEFICIT…. Oh please! No matter how they fudge the numbers, everyone knows this is complete BS and yet they repeat it at any/every townhall.

Call your Senators, especially any on the Gang Of Sicks (er…six), and let them know: NO COMPROMISE… you must start over from scratch and work to real solutions – as I outline in contacting Senators by email today (and I’m following up by phone)….

I doubt you’re going to pay any attention to the mood of the country, as you hadn’t regarding many other votes, but here goes. Many Americans do indeed want Health INSURANCE Reform to improve the state of Health Care in America, BUT… there can be No Compromise with the current HR3200 boondoggle… It must be scraped and a new plan, ecompasing REAL SOLUTIONS (Not just plans to shift HC to Govt. Takeover that HR3200 is) that we as Republicans have spoken of/for for years. Cross-State line portability, Tort reform, PreExisting condition exclusion elimination (not allowed in MI, enact that Nationally), post employment coverage (modifying COBRA and HSA/MSA accounts to NOT ZERO OUT each year so multi-year savings can/will PAY FOR OWN COVERAGE while between jobs), More Govt. regulations and paperwork will DRIVE UP not reduce costs and bring us more Lawyers and Office Administrators to deal with it NOT Doctors, etc…. The answers are there, if you’d only pay attention:

HC Townhall Lies – Townhall HC distortions/propaganda
+More Townhall Hi-jinks – More HC Townhall Hi-jinks
+Townhalls 3 – HC Townhall: Like Hollywood, Democrats used new Actors to replay the same Script.
+Townhalls 4 – HC Townhalls: Steny Hoyer (D-MD) edition.
+Public Option – sole focus on Public Option is a mistake that sets up Lib’s for another Liberal Incremental-ism step to complete HC Takeover
+No Tort Reform – Moe Lane’s Diary: Dean admits why there is No Tort Reform in ANY HC legislation
+Kennedy Bill – A Teddy Kennedy HC Bill Republicans SHOULD SPONSOR
+an aside, Kennedy seat hypocrisy – MASS looks to ex-post-facto change Law to appoint Dem. to Kennedy seat
+another aside, Obama LAST KENNEDY Bro?!?! – Chrisy Matthews declares Obama last Kennedy brother
+McCain HC – McCain HC Townhall details, another sell-out pre-declared!
+Harry/Louise – Harry & Louise want you to pay for their Head examinations?
+Gang of Sicks (er… Six) – The Senate HC “Gang Of Sicks” (formerly 7, but Hatch left and that didn’t have the fun play on words lol)
+Clunker portends – Cash4Clunkers portends the HC fiasco in so many ways… Basic math!!
+Flag@ – Flag-whitehouse.gov is down, but are the unlawful (same old trickery) actions going on via WH:RealityCheck? AND HealthCare lies still being peddled? (hint: YES, to both)
+Obama’s “My HC plan” Lie – Obama’s HC dodge, quoting a non-existant and/or not in consideration Plan
+ultimate HC Q: – The ultimate HR3200 Q: Will Fetus’ about to be Aborted qualify for End Of Life counseling, or is that reserved only for Seniors about to be effectively Euthanized by/from Rationing?!?!
+Angry mob script – Democrats and MSM keep playing the Angry Mob script

It’s called A Bipartisan Plan To Wreck The System and I strongly recommend reading all of it; I’ve excerpted the opening paragraphs below.

Members of Congress, Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of the Obama Youth Corps—I come to you tonight to speak frankly about our nation’s health-care crisis and how we in Washington can make it worse.

Salami tactics on health care have long involved slicing the salami from both ends.

On one hand, we enlarge the government’s role in providing health care, making more and more voters dependent on Washington.

On the other, we enact regulations and restrictions to keep driving the private insurance system off a cliff.

To the American people I promise tonight, whatever compromises lay ahead, whatever the arduous negotiations, Democrats and Republicans will work together to continue to drive the current system off a cliff. (Applause from Democrats in the audience; Nancy Pelosi beams.)

Even if we cannot enact my administration’s “public option,” we will extend the great work of previous generations, making sure private health care continues to be unaffordable to more and more Americans, and piling up fresh mandates on employers so fewer and fewer of our citizens will have either jobs or health insurance.