The dog doesn't like the food!

This week we will witness the potential endgame in the year long battle for Healthcare reform. And what a year it has been. Particularly interesting has been the constantly sliding poll numbers since last summer's town hall meetings, and the suprising results of the Massachusetts special election, in which Scott Brown ran on the platform of being the 41st vote in the Senate to break the Democrat's fillibuster proof supermajority.

That special election result put a spotlight on the publics response to the current legislation, and caused both the Obama administration and congressional leaders on Capital Hill to hunker down and re-assess the growing opposition. The bunker down mentallity of a tight core group of presidential advisers obviously did not include additional input, and appears to have resulted in a "group think" mindset that has mis-diagonosed the proceedure vs. policy. Unable (or unwilling) to accurately read the T.E.A. leaves and opinion polls, the POTUS has focused squarely on the public's disgust of the special deals and closed door meetings, read: THE PROCEEDURE. While correct, he neglected the more important of the two issues, read THE POLICY.

The dog doesn't like the food. The American people do not like the current policy. You can certainly try putting the dog food in a different bowl, or try parlimentary proceedures like reconciliation, but the dog STILL doesn't like the food! It's not like were not hungry, Americans want healthcare reform, just not this current 2,700 page progressive redistributive deficit busting spending monstrosity. It's about reforming healthcare costs, not an oportuinity to expand coverage. I believe that common sense reforms to reduce costs by increasing competion and tort reform would expand coverage simply by making insurance more afordable to those who choose to participate, and would spare the American people the draconian manditory measures and resulting bloated bureaucracy.