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The truth, and how it hurts...

ObamaCare socialized medicine has never really been a very popular idea with the American people, even with its many false promises of better care at lower cost.

But now, the bottom seems to have fallen out on the plan.

A recent poll by CNN finds astonishing opposition to ObamaCare. Only one-fourth of Americans surveyed said that reforms along the lines of ObamaCare bills that have passed the House and Senate should become law. But a stunningly high 73 percent say either that some new proposal should be brought before Congress or that lawmakers should cease work on health care reform entirely. Incredibly, even most Democrats polled do not support ObamaCare legislation.

That enormous opposition comes despite a year-long, full-court press by the Obama administration and its numerous allies in the liberal news media.

It is evident that the American people do not favor a federal government takeover of health care, nor the trillion-dollar-plus "guesstimated" cost of ObamaCare. And yet the president and most Democrats in Congress push forward with a plan that, if it passes at all, will do so only over the opposition of virtually all Republican and some Democrat lawmakers.

Ignoring broad public opposition is politically risky to members of Congress. But passing ObamaCare would be economically perilous to the entire United States. Lawmakers and the president should step back from the brink and drop their costly ObamaCare plans.

Obamacare: where the lies, they are the thickest...

When a politician cannot fathom opposition to his policies except as the manifestation of wicked manipulation by bad guys, remediable only by more thorough “explanations” from the good guys, it indicates an unseemly paternalism. And if he cannot take the hint that Bush-Obama bailout-and-spend economics are deeply and increasingly unpopular, that indicates something immovable about his core economic ideology. With those two factors as backdrop, it’s hard to say which would be worse: if the president didn’t really believe what he said, or if he did.

The next shoe to drop? The CBO's preliminary numbers.

This is getting to be good theater. Pass the popcorn!

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