Kill bill : the game Pelosi, Reid and Obama have been playing for most of the past year. There were big problems long before Scott Brown !!

Pelosi and Company have serious problems with regard to health care reform.

In private meetings with Speaker Pelosi, House liberals, yesterday, made this point: “We cannot support the Senate bill — period,”

As it turns out, Scott Brown is not the only problem Dems have with the monstrosity they call health care reform. Divisions exists with regard to the public option, agreement on Medicare cuts [which will never happen], federally funded abortions and now, the very language and concept of the Senate version. These problems have been in the mix throughout the course of the year but have been ignored by Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader, Harry Reid.

"We'll deal with that latter" has now run its course. Now is "latter." Apparently, bringing Dems together, in this case, is like herding five hundred chickens while a hawk flies overhead. Think about that for a minute. The fact of the matter is this: Midknight Review now believes that health care is dead --- for the time being. The little known truth is that it died several months ago, about the time Pelosi and Reid decided to ignore the inter-Party issues surounding this bill. As it turns out, these "issues" have devolved into a bill killing reality.

In addition, we now know that Obama does not have the clout many believed him to possess. He cannot scare the chickens back into the hen house. And the American voters are tired of his broken promises and general ineptitude as the leader of the free world. All past presidents have employed no less that 30% of their immediate staff out of the business community and this includes the pizza eater, Bill Clinton. With Obama, that total -- advisors out of the private sector business community -- totals only 8%. Obama and Company are pointed headed intellectuals with nothing but theory to offer in the place of work place experience. In fact, Obama expresses a certain disdain for experience, apparently believing that "on the job training" is just as effective. But we digress.

The health care bill is dead and it died because it is too broadly based; it tried to do too much and in so doing, it went far beyond Washington's ability to unify. The bill was dead the day Obama dreamed up its general perimeters AND decided to leave "incrementalism" behind.

If we made a movie out of this year long drama, perhaps "Kill bill" would be the appropriate title.

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