WE CANNOT WAIT, PINS AND NEEDLES TIME – AT 7:39 A.M. ET:  Obamacare, the Toyota of health-care plans, has apparently been recalled because of out-of-control acceleration of spending.  The White House promises to unveil Obamacare II today.

We are told, from various sources, that the plan will be 1) smaller than Obamacare; 2) the same size as Obamacare; 3) a compromise between the Senate and House versions; 4) no compromise; 5) will contain GOP ideas; 6) will contain only token mention of GOP ideas; 7) will save more money than the original; 8) will cost the same.

Maybe we should just wait for the unveiling, which is what one usually does with gravestones.  I think the comparison is apt.

The health-care mess reveals the unique inability of this White House to govern, which is presumably what winning elections is about.  But the Dem strategy is now obvious – to patch together something, almost anything, to pass some kind of bill, even if it means using reconciliation in the Senate to do so.

Don't underestimate these guys.  They do control both houses of Congress.  All they have to do is get a one-vote margin in the House, and use reconciliation in the Senate, and we may be stuck with a monster, despite overwhelming public opposition. 

We await the unveiling.

March 3,  2010