About the Health Care Summit Obama suddenly thinks is a good idea -- he has preconditions. More smoke and mirrors, folks !!

Obama moves to insult the will of the American people as he attempts to circumvent the Congressional process and push for a bill that has been rejected by the voters of this great nation.

At left you see Obama being handed the GOP health care reform plan. Much of this GOP plan has been around since the middle of LAST YEAR. All of the primary considerations presented for passage in either the House or the Senate have been summarily rejected by Democrat members of those bodies -- 99% of them never getting "out of committee."

"I want to consult closely with our Republican colleagues," Obama said over the weekend. "What I want to do is to ask them to put their ideas on the table. . . . I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through, systematically, all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward."

In making this statement, Obama admits that he has refused to consider the GOP plan until now. In fact, in the January 29th meeting with the Republican Caucus, he berated the GOP Caucus Conference to which he had been invited for being partisan when, in point of fact, it has been his policy since coming to office to ignore the GOP. From August on, the Republicans have been shut out of all health care negotiations. More than this, Obama refused to meet with GOP leadership (per se) at anytime during the 2009 legislative season.

While he argued for negotiations with the terrorist sponsored Iranian government during the '08 campaign, he is not willing to offer the same circumstance to American legislative patriots and opposing congressional members.

The proposed televised "meeting of the minds" (an Obama pretense) is nothing more than an opportunity for Obama to brow-beat his Conservative opposition. The American people have ALREADY rejected the current Democrat legislation. With that in view, the proposed meeting flies in the face of the people's desires, assuming that Obama is not willing to begin at the beginning.

Obama is bring a combined bill, drawing from the House and Senate and using that creation as the starting point for the planned meeting with the GOP. This combined bill has not been approved by Congress, has not gone through the "conference process" and is, therefore, not the product the legislative process.

Why is he using this combined bill? Because the Democrats could not agree on a conference bill (that legally combines the House and Senate documents). In short, he is bring "to the table" a bill that has failed. Further, he is attempting to circumvent Congress, something he does with impunity.

Unless he is willing to begin at the beginning, this meeting should not take place. The Democrat Congress has spoken. The bill is dead AT NO FAULT OF THE TOTALLY OUT OF POWER GOP. And the marginalized GOP should not participate in either the resurrection of this dead piece of legislation or the circumventing of the Congressional process.

We suggest that Congress start over and draft a bill with the free market in mind and the doctor/patient relationship as the controlling principle. Make no mistake, the current failed bill was about four years of tax collection to offset the immoral spending habits of a party bent on fundamentally transforming the United States, moving us away from the Constitutional principles of individual freedoms, private enterprise and states rights -- jds.