Health Summit Half-Time

I'm biased. You all know that. So, my impressions are going to be reflective of that.

There's going to be no change out of this. The presiding officer has been caught by Sen. McConnell after the first 90 minutes with the hard fact that Republicans have had the floor for 24 minutes and Democrats have been speaking for 56. A bit clumsy that.

The Democrats from Congress are almost embarrassing in the superficiality of their emotional appeals. Between recounts of an individual in Hicksville Nevada whose wife had breast cancer and his insurance was running out and rambling accounts of someone else somewhere who was choosing between paying his deductibles and buying groceries, it was tear-jerking but anecdotal and irrelevant to policy solutions.

The President is no better. I just watched Jon Kyl present a fact-filled five minute explanation of the cost impact of the bill and get a response from the Bamster that took fifteen minutes and roamed from his post-college auto clunker insurance that didn't cover him to the generality laced scenario of someone with poor coverage in Nevada sharing worse coverage in New York because the healthy people are the only ones who get covered. He never addressed the facts nor did he seem capable of doing so.

But, he always gets the last word and he dominates the microphone.

The whole show should foster the deepest revulsion among the electorate. But I know that most folks aren't watching and the mainstream media are going to paint it as a tour de force for the white-hatted redistributionists. The sound-bites will be something to behold.