Or watch it here.

The Speaker’s flip-flops are catching up with her.
And the strangeness is starting to show (see the video): we have to pass the Senate bill so the public can see what is in it.
Her famed control over house members minds is fading: She supported Chairman Rangel right up until she dumped him. She did not have the muscle […]

The media is now pulling out all the stops to help Obama win the House vote. They know he is in deep trouble and they need to help. And they will keep helping, reporting as if the vote is in the bag.
But do not fear. Jay Cost has the real house vote count. (Rep. Massa’s claims […]

Dem Members of Congress and their staff are beginning to understand that the promise made to fix the Senate bill after they pass it in the House, is well, wearing a little thin.
Seems they believe the exact opposite.  That the Speaker and the White House will declare victory on health care and move on — […]

The funny thing about the Dem attempt to paint passage of ObamaCare as showing the public what the bill does is that the bill’s  provisions take effect well after the coming elections in 2010 and 2012, when the public will take out their anger on the existing Members of Congress for voting for something the […]

One hour and forty minutes after the White House issued their Easter deadline for ObamaCare to pass Congress, Democratic House Leaders conceded “they may not meet President Barack Obama’s challenge for swift action.”
Whenever the House Leadership moves a vote, it means they don’t have the votes. In Spanish, that’s mañana.
With the White House issuing […]

Ending this health care nightmare comes down to one thing, and one thing only: expend all remaining to defeat the Senate bill in the House.
The Speaker cannot pass the Senate bill now. She does not have the votes. She has never had the votes — ever, to pass the Senate bill. (The AP […]

Senator Conrad, the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said yesterday that reconciliation can only be used if the House passes the Senate bill first. As Sen. Conrad declared, “I don’t know of any way, I don’t know of any way where you can have a reconciliation bill pass before the bill that it is […]

This video (H/T Drudge Report) captures an important piece of recent history, when the GOP controlled the White House and the Senate. The Democrats repeatedly attacked the Republicans for attempting the “nuclear option.”  Senator Reid described the Republican strategy as an arrogant power grab.
Senator Dodd said he has never in his time in the Senate […]

Cantor Whip count memo

Turns out that the interpretation that the Dems are bluffing on reconciliation is a charitable interpretation. It assumes they have a plan.
The other alternative view, that the President really is serious about reconciliation, is so unserious that most in D.C. don’t take it seriously.  (Read Eric Cantor’s House Whip Count Memo here about […]

The ObamaCare roll out has run right into, well, itself. From the true-believer-ObamaCare-cheerleader-a-go-go, Jonathan Cohn:
“Apparently unresolved, still, is the question of which House votes first. And that’s no small thing.
“But the bigger question, really, is the broader one: Will Democrats, particularly in the House, get past their fear and vote for the bill? Really […]

The Congressional Budget Office Director, in today’s blog, says CBO cannot “score” or provide a cost estimate for Obama’s health care plan because CBO needs more detail.
It’s amazing, the Trillion Dollar President wants to change the world, but doesn’t have legislative language to do it. Not even to give to CBO.
Where is the bill? It’s […]

February 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m. EST
MEMORANDUM
FROM: Michael Hammond
RE: New Obama Health Care Draft
As of this hour, there is an 11-page document on the White House web site outlining Obama’s newest version of ObamaCare. Before laying out a summary of the most recent Obama proposal, I […]

Brian Darling of the Heritage Foundation has moved the entire health care world from refitting weapons and/or R & R to DEFCON Two with these two posts, here and here. Darling is not only one of the few real operational experts on Senate Rules, and he is a highly effective operative for the good guys. […]

Reason number infinite why ObamaCare will fail:  who is going to vote for $2.5 Trillion in new spending?
Peggy Noonan outlines the new political reality:
“People are freshly aware and concerned about the real-world implications of a $1.6 trillion dollar deficit, of a $14 trillion debt. It will rob America of its economic power, and eventually even […]

The Hill reports:
“In a brutal assessment of the Democratically authored healthcare reform bills pending in Congress and the party’s approach to healthcare, more than half of the respondents to a new Zogby International-University of Texas Health Science Center poll said that lawmakers should start from scratch.
“Of the more than 2,500 people surveyed from Jan. 29 […]

Elizabeth Drew has written a long, biased and tortured health care reform review of events, of which, two things, which appear at the very end of the article, are worth quoting.
Note to reader: it is clear her sources were White House based and her defense of Obama in the face of his massive failure clearly […]

AOL (America On Line) of all places has an excellent article that clearly lays out the bottom line of American politics, under normal circumstances: citing Sean Trende, Americans like divided — gridlocked — government.
The Speaker and the Trillion Dollar President´s repeated were-not-listening-to-you routine on health care has seared into the independent voter the dangers of […]

Senator Bayh, on why he is leaving the U.S. Senate:
 ”But if I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months. If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would […]

No legislation will be signed as a result of the White House health care meeting.
Congress is politically radioactive. ObamaCare is hated. And never has a Speaker’s low approval rating created male-trance-like-obedience to injure themselves like some hilarious Super Bowl commercial.
According to the sisterhood-in-chief: Obama “signaled early on that he could be rolled when he ceded […]

The Trillion Dollar President’s $2.5 Trillion ObamaCare continues to unspool (from AP):

“First he called congressional Democrats’ yearlong march toward health care overhaul an ugly process. Now President Barack Obama wants to talk directly with Republicans, the very people his Capitol Hill allies call obstinate and uncooperative.
It’s no wonder Democratic lawmakers are less than enthusiastic about […]

Richard Lowry has a really great insight in this column.  I believe it to be true:

“It might have been the most revelatory moment of the Obama presidency. In an interview with Time magazine, a chastened President Obama talked of his sputtering Middle East peace initiative.
“This is just really hard,” he explained. “This is as intractable […]

Published speculation that Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) will retire rather than face re-election is sort of like the rush to get out of D.C. prior to the snow storms last week.
Those who stayed and rode out the storm, really wish they rather had not.  And the fact that a Kennedy is retiring does tie in the […]

The Trillion Dollar President ran on his “yes we can” slogan, but, it turns out, a former State Senator and a part-time U.S. Senator who campaigned instead of legislating may be able to convince people he can, but, well there is this: even Paul Krugman believes he can’t.
Krugman, in the NYT, writes “We’re doomed.”
Yes, the […]

From FOX News:

“It’s going to be very difficult to have bipartisan conversations with regard to a 2,700 page health care bill that the Democrat majority in the House and the Democrat majority in the Senate can’t pass,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said. “Why are we going to talk about a bill that can’t pass? […]

The lack of enthusiasm, drive and willingness to do anything more on ObamaCare is the result of political malpractice on the part of the White House, the Speaker and Senator Reid.
For all their deal making and arm twisting, the public, the interest groups, the staff and Members of Congress are displaying passive-aggressive behavior towards health […]

Bill Murchinson of the Creators Syndicate has nailed it, courtesy of RealClearPolitics:

“In an interview before the Super Bowl, President Obama announced a Feb. 25 half-day “bipartisan health care summit” that he said would be televised live. The president said he wanted to see what Republicans could bring to the table — except he won’t allow […]

The Dem-only, GOP stiff-arm that the Trillion dollar President has been treating the nation to for the last year on health care is supposed to go away in one televised meeting. After forcing the end of the only bi-partisan process in Congress and insisting that Congress go the Dem-only route — here are the 19 […]

 
The Trillion Dollar President told flagging Dems at their Party pow-wow yesterday in D.C. that, as the LA Times reports, “trimming goals and postponing hard choices are the wrong approach,” and that “he would press ahead with his healthcare proposal and other pieces of his ambitious agenda.”
President Obama blames lobbyists — apparently taking a page […]

This a classic case of attempted big-man-chest-beating, that comes off as kinda-whine-y — as in, do you want some cheese with that whine? — when Shrum attempts to rally defeated, wounded and shell-shocked troops.
And this is now what passes as the top Dem political advice on why Congress should pass health care:
“A PPP poll […]

Perhaps it was this, or this that actually persuaded the Trillion Dollar President that he could not just stand behind a podium and order Congress to do his bidding.
But I doubt it.  Only when the Trillion Dollar President could lay the blame on Congress, did he admit defeat, when clearly for anyone who could see […]

Senator Franken (D-MN), not known even in his short time in the Senate for his ability to play well with others, may have laid bare the lack of ability to pass legislation by the White House, which they mask as “we’ll let Congress decide.” (Senator Obama’s legislative achievements were, well, thin.)
Franken was reportedly enraged by […]

Drunk with delusion, will the Jonestown Kool-Aid Brigade go for it on ObamaCare? We’ll find out at the end of the week — but we have been hearing that for weeks. No decision, is in fact, a decision.
The endless attempt to revive the dead, by practitioners who believe that one more adrenaline shot, one more […]

As the reality of the political and economic situation that the White House and the country finds itself in — brought on to us by that February rite of passage, the budget — health care reform is fading in the rear window.
Highly unpopular, expensive, politically painful for proponents and manna from heaven for opponents — […]

It’s worse since the New Year:

The slide continues:

Jonathan Cohn has been one of the Democrats cheerleaders and instigators within the Democratic Party’s world of agenda setting — he urged health care to be tackled, wrote about it constantly and pilloried those who did not want to try.
Cohn has never understood the politics of American health care reform, notwithstanding being viewed as an […]

Do not freak out about Sen. Snowe talking to the Dems.
Senator Snowe has rejected moving forward on any health care bill with the Democrats using reconciliation. This is GREAT NEWS. Without reconciliation the Dems will be in a de novo — start at the beginning — situation, which is where they should start.
If the desperate […]

Senator Hatch is a pretty level-headed guy. He used to be a boxer, and if pushed — and I mean really pushed — the guy will come out swinging.
And boy, have the Dems pushed on ObamaCare.
So, when Senator Hatch makes the kind of threat he made recently, well, you’d have to be a few […]

Finally, some reality has set in, this accurate assessment from the Open Left:

“Meet your new legislative calendar:

As a background to a jobs bill and the financial regulation package, health insurance reform will drag on for several more weeks, and might never be passed.
As a result of that, climate change legislation is on life support, and […]

Watch as the leader of the Jonestown Brigade mixes the latest batch of Kool-Aid, guaranteed to politically kill off more than one in ten Dems in the U.S. House:

Even the NYT is poking fun at the Dems: No Plan Yet, But Democrats Remain Confident on Health Care.  Meanwhile, Senator-Louisiana-Purchase says ObamaCare “is on life support.”

Out of all of the analysis of the State of the Union address — I would call it more of a patronizing lecture — the Atlantic’s Clive Crook said it best (excerpts are below, I’d strongly recommend reading the entire piece):
“Little sign of a reset that I could see. The speech emphasized jobs and the […]

From TIME Magazine:
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sounding very determined–and surprisingly upbeat–about the prospects for a comprehensive health care bill in the wake of last week’s Senate election in Massachusetts, which cost the Democrats their 60-vote, fillibuster-proof majority.
“You can always find a way. You can always find a way,” Pelosi told a group of about […]

(H/T Moe Lane) Sen. Pryor: “my sense is, in the end reconciliation will not even be attempted.”

Here is the red meat from this AP story:
“Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., did more than ask. In a private meeting the day after Republican Scott Brown won Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat, Titus used a profanity to describe to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and freshman lawmakers the Democratic Party’s prospects in the midterm elections if it […]

First, this is a National Public Radio poll we are talking about, not a center-right or centrist group — NPR.
Here is the death knell:
“The poll holds plenty of danger signs for the Democrats. In one indicator studied closely by both parties ahead of midterm elections, likely voters chose an unnamed Republican candidate by 5 percentage […]

From a great piece in the Washington Examiner:
“Mary Katharine Ham notes that President Obama tells ABC:
“Let’s just clarify. I didn’t make a bunch of deals [on health care]. … There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed […]

The will to act, which looked so resolute among the Democratic leadership during the Dark Days of the The Great ObamaCare Wars of 2009 and 2010, has left the campsite, with rank and file sneaking away along the stream lines leading away from the Crusader’s tents.
What looked liked indomitable will to the rank and file […]

Making the Dems crawl over glass for any attempt at a health care reconciliation bill:
The New York Times reports that Democrats face a new set of choices on whether to pursue the strategy of passing the Senate health care bill, plus a budget-reconciliation bill to modify it — with Republicans ready to throw up new […]

Speaker Pelosi’s zero point zero House vote margin has eroded further during the week after the Red Tide flooded Central and Eastern Massachusetts.
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D - OH) said: “The senate bill is so totally flawed that I don’t think it can get the votes in the House to pass. I certainly wouldn’t vote […]

David Axelrod on ABC This Week, January 24, 2010  

“So I think you’re misreading the results out of Massachusetts . The president will not walk away from the American people, will not hand them over to the tender mercies of health insurance companies who — who take advantage. He will not walk away from people […]

Read it here.

From the Washington Times:
“In all likelihood, Mr. Clinton warned Mr. Obama (again) not to repeat his 1993 mistake of allowing mounting opposition to torpedo his grand plans to overhaul health care. Like Mr. Obama, Mr. Clinton was a young Democratic president, with stars in his eyes and idealism on his shirtsleeve. Also just as today, […]

Obama’s Kool-Aid:
“Denial, arrogance and self-pity are ingredi ents for a pretty toxic cocktail. And yet it seems that the occupants of the White House bunker, shell-shocked by Scott Brown, are coping by mixing all three with a little Kool-Aid.
“In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, President Obama offered his nuanced analysis of the Bay […]

Charles Krauthammer:
“After Coakley’s defeat, Obama pretended that the real cause was a generalized anger and frustration “not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
“Let’s get this straight: The antipathy to George W. Bush is so enduring and powerful that … it just […]

WSJ Editorial page:
“Instead of starting legislation off from the left, it will need to build a majority from the center out. As Maine Republican Olympia Snowe pointed out this week, the Senate Finance Committee’s “group of six” process broke down because the White House thought that bipartisan cooperation was tedious and too slow to get […]

In this story, you have this bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Freshman President who was a U.S. Senator for a year or two, and a two term President and ex-governor whose wife just got beat for the Presidency.
Clinton and his wife were particularly sick of the arrogance and condescending tones about how the FNG was going to pass […]

Notwithstanding all of the damage that health care has wrought the Democrats, AP is reporting the following statement this morning: “We have to get a bill passed,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
In what could be a clear reference to the psychological state of denial, in the same AP story just below the quote […]

ObamaCare broke their back.
The President says he will not “walk away from health care reform,” so, will he wheel away?
Dem health care reform is so destructive, so toxic that everyone who touches it dies politically. Oh, and this happened last time too. But the Speaker and the President were too arrogant to respect 1994.
It is […]

When the lead paragraph in a story in the Boston Globe — owned by the New York Times — from a story titled “Obama here for Coakley, trailing a diminished aura,” reads:
“The feverish excitement that propelled Barack Obama and scores of other Democrats to victory in 2008 has all but evaporated, worrying party leaders who […]

 
From the Boston Globe.
 

If you want the definition of pathetic, look at Rep. Pomeroy .  He attacks the Speaker in a caucus meeting prior to the House floor vote saying she is killing the Dems politically with her health reform crusade, then, days later gives an apology to the caucus and says he is voting for the bill […]

(H/T Gateway Punit and RedMass Group via beforeitsnews.com):
The stated reason for Sen. Lieberman’s possible endorsement — Brown’s strong opposition to ObamaCare.

I have been and always will be among those who believe that the Dems cannot pass comprehensive health reform.  Mostly  because the Dems always over reach.
The Waxman-Pelosi-Obama axis are too liberal for America, and they really do not understand that their holy grail of health care reform is anti-American because it limits choices and imposes […]

WaPo is reporting on the widely circulated quote from House member Van Hollen that the Dems still consider reconciliation an option.
The House Member talking about a procedure used in the Senate to avoid a 60 vote threshold is, well, you know — not credible. I know Van Hollen was a Senate staffer, which gives him […]

Reuters:

“A shift of three votes in the House could
doom the bill, which passed by a 220 to 215 vote in November.
In the Senate, the bill passed on Christmas Eve with exactly
the 60 votes it needed to overcome unified Republican
opposition, and a single defection could doom it.“

From `The Backlash is Coming! The Backlash is Coming!´
Independents are breaking for Mr. Brown by a three-to-one margin, Rasmussen finds. And many people do not realize that independents outnumber Democrats—51% of registered voters in the state are not affiliated with a party, while 37% are registered as Democrats and 11% as Republicans.

Lacking the courage to vote no, Sen. Nelson tried to have it both ways and lost.
If he votes yes on the final passage his career in Nebraska is over, if he votes no he has a shot to save it — but just a shot.
From Politico:
“Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson and his wife were leaving dinner […]

From the National Journal:
“One year after President Obama took office, the green shoots of optimism that accompanied his inauguration are withering, pummeled by gale-force discontent and anxiety over the prolonged recession, a new Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll indicates.
“Despite some recent signs of economic recovery, the proportion of Americans who say that the country is […]

The patsies catch on to ObamaCare:

“The ticked-off people in Pewaukee weren’t telling Feingold not to tax them to cover the not-quite-poor. They were telling him not to mess with their coverage, because Obamacare does just that, corralling millions of people into federally designed plans. Federal panels may tell doctors what treatments to use. The Internal […]

“As an illustration, consider the following hypothetical.
“You’re a social worker or a parish priest in a poor urban neighborhood that lives under the malignant, if stable, stewardship of an organized-crime protection racket. The small business owners all have to pay a protection fee, which most of them can afford, but a significant portion of bodegas […]

FireDogLake’s Whip Count:
“Consider the math.
“I hadn’t remembered until CQ reminded me today that Robert Wexler (D-FL) resigned his post at the end of the year to become the head of a Jewish nonprofit group. Wexler was one of the 220 votes in favor of the House bill in November, with 215 opposed. Wexler’s replacement won’t […]

From “White House, Congress Try to Resolve Looming ‘Impasse’ Over Health Care:”
“Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said the Senate version would not get the necessary 218 votes to pass in the House and warned that “it’s going to be a difficult problem” to round up support in the House if Senate leaders insist on their language. […]

The award for the U.S. House Member most foresaking his principles goes to Representative Anthony Weiner (D-NY) — Mr. We-Must-Have-a-Public-Option-to-Medicare-Buy-In-is-better-to-I’ll-vote-for-a-bill-with-no-public-option-and-no-Medicare-buy-in-but-I’ll-whine-about-it:
“If you think about the three letters that almost all of us signed, we signed a Courtney letter saying we weren’t going to go along if it included the Cadillac tax, a [Rep. Diana] DeGette letter […]

There are policy wonks who are obsessed with the details of the health plan.
In July of last year, the politics of ObamaCare went beyond the wonky details.
The public, in general, is at NO.
It is the politics of NO that will win the health debate — and Member of Congress need to understand that the public, […]

I know this will come as a shock — sort of like the Pope being Catholic — but the Dems are admitting they have a “serious problem” with regard to the health bill negotiations, and do not expect to finish until February.
From Roll Call:
“We’ve got a problem on both sides of the Capitol. A serious […]

From Amy Walter, who is clearly on the side of no, Brown will not win, but has these interesting things to say:
“Can Republican Scott Brown really win? If you look at just those who say they are the most interested in voting on Jan. 19, the answer is yes. Among those in the recent Boston […]

With a taxpayer financed abortions and a government take-over of health care at stake, so what?
Maybe this is why Amy Walter writes in the National Journal “the “Facebook Women for Brown” group has over 1,000 members, while the “Women for Coakley” group has just 45.”

From John Fund at the Wall Street Journal:
“In the end, I don’t believe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will run for re-election. Whether or not the health-care bill he muscled through the Senate becomes law, the 70-year-old will bow out of his race for a fifth term.
“The major reason has nothing to do with his […]

Watch the video here.
Frank blames right-wing sources for spreading this rumor, like the Associated Press:
“The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the election results — should Brown win — to prevent a Republican from assuming the seat until the Senate completes its work on Kennedy’s […]

From the High Cost of No Price:
“Much of the rationale behind the current reform of the healthcare system is about controlling inflation in healthcare costs. However, based on the trend presented above, a better alternative to the semi-nationalization that the president has in mind would be to increase individual responsibility for medical decisions and costs. […]

It is laughable how much the Democrats have hurt themselves politically and continue to hurt themselves politically in their Obama-Pelosi-Reid led health care jihad.
Exhibit A is what is happening in Massachusetts.  For those wonder which poll to believe, the poll showing the unknown GOP Brown up by one point over the Massachusetts Attorney General, or […]

H/T America’s Blog, from Sam Stien at the Huffington Post:
“It could well be” a recipe for disaster in 2010, [AFL-CIO president Richard] Trumka told a group of reporters. “I just came back from southern California. I was in five or six places out there… it is amazing the number of people that come up […]

RealClearPolitics has the key parts of Dodd’s statement in a video clip here and CBS News reports the Trillion Dollar President’s approval rating has hit a new low — 46%.
Senator Dodd (D-CT) gives his normally rambling comments, among them:
“If this is all about surviving politically, then we’re missing the whole purpose of what we’re […]

H/T Instapundit.

See the results here or donate yourself.
Do you think that maybe there many Americans who want the ObamaCare bill dead?

Trende, who writes the horse race blog at RealClearPolitics is among the best in country, and here is his take on the MA Senate race:

“Consider: PPP (D) has her at 47%. The Globe/UNH poll has her at 53%. Rasmussen has her at 50%. Even internal Democratic polling — which usually represents […]

From the Associated Press this morning:
“The stakes are so high Democrats won’t rule out taking as long as a month to certify the election results — should Brown win — to prevent a Republican from assuming the seat until the Senate completes its work on Kennedy’s hallmark legislation.”

From the Washington Times:
“This year, Mr. Obama’s search for a date stems from the White House’s desire to have a major legislative accomplishment to tout — in this case, health care.
Steffen W. Schmidt, known as “Dr. Politics,” said Mr. Obama needs to have a pony before he can have a dog-and-pony show.”

Problems, or P to the sixth power, is what Speaker Pelosi faces.
She tells her caucus on a conference call not to believe reports that she has decided that the House will OK all the major positions of the Senate (read: cave to the Senate) — but in order to defeat the Senate position, she needs […]