You’ll note that President Obama has all but dropped “health insurance for the 45 million without coverage” from his health overhaul stump speech.

Why? Because recent polling shows Americans don’t care nearly as much about the “universal” availability of health coverage when they have to pay extra to provide it, and, as the Congressional Budget Office noted, the health overhaul plans currently making their way through Congress will provide coverage for just over a third of the uninsured at most.

You’ll note that President Obama’s newfound emphasis on cost reduction as the chief feature of his health overhaul is accompanied at every stop by an attempt to smear and shut up those who point out that the bill he is demanding be passed will increase costs, not decrease them.

Why? Because with recent polls showing that high cost is far and away the number one concern among Americans about health care, and because 60% of Americans believe real health care reform can be accomplished without costing them any more money, Obama needs to be able to say that costs will come down as a result of his legislation — and, as everybody from Blue Dog Democrats to the director of the Congressional Budget Office (who was appointed jointly by Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Robert Byrd) have noted, the bills being considered by Congress and demanded by Obama will cause health care costs to skyrocket and cause the deficit — already a record, thanks to Obama’s demand for one spending bill after another — to continue its unprecedented growth unabated.

You’ll note that President Obama is ratcheting up the pressure by the day on Congress to quit their markups of the three health overhaul bills in the House and Senate, to stop trying to read what’s in the bills (let alone trying to consider the effects of those bills’ contents), and to pass them already so he can sign them into law, unread and unconsidered.

Why? As easy as it would be to simply repeat the old Rahm Emanuel line used to justify the passage of the unread (and abysmally failed) “stimulus package” — “Never waste a crisis” (meaning “pass everything you can before that crisis ends and people start wanting to know what is being done in their name again”) — the answer to this one lies in the polling. Support for Obama’s health care overhaul proposal has been dropping since it hit most Americans’ radars this Spring, and it continues to do so today. Two weeks ago, the percentage of Americans who supported a government-centric overhaul of the health care system dropped below fifty percent for the first time since this “debate” began, according to Rasmussen.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll, a scant 12% of Americans now think health care will improve should Obamacare be signed into law. Contrast that with the 85% who are happy with their current health coverage, a number that is growing by the month, as people begin to look into the alternatives and realize just how good things are here in America.

61% of Americans favor immediate health care reform, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Add that to the fact that fewer than 50% of Americans (and dropping) favor Obamacare, and the President has little choice but to ram this proposal through as fast as humanly possible if he is to get it done at all.

Below, here’s what House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) has to say about the Democrats’ rush to pass a bill fewer people every day actually want: