Brett Bittner

To be clear, I am NOT supportive of the health care reforms spoken of for the last year by the administration, as a left-leaning site, Talking Points Memo, compiled here.

When you look at the polls for ObamaCare, breaking down pieces of the bill that the Senate passed, 70% of Americans polled support creating a new national insurance exchange and requiring health insurance companies to accept applicants with pre-existing conditions. I don't agree with either, but I'm drawn to ask how, in a year's time, with a 68 seat advantage in the House and and a FILIBUSTER PROOF 20 seat majority in the Senate, along with massive public support for both a national insurance exchange and forcing insurance companies to insure those with pre-existing conditions, HOW IN THE WORLD WAS A HEALTH CARE REFORM NOT PASSED?

My thought: The constant campaigning, the back room deals with the unions, pharmaceutical companies, and sitting Senators ("Cornhusker Kickback" and "Louisiana Purchase"), and the inexperience of the president are what turned the tide of public opinion to have 61% of Americans currently wanting Congress to drop the health care plan. Rather than inspiring a nation with his message of "hope" and "change," he has turned off the millions he motivated to get involved by over-promising and under-delivering.

He failed miserably playing the political game, because he did not fully understand it, nor did he have the lifelong relationships and alliances in place. The feel good "bipartisanship" to include Republicans he promised, which he marginalized too late in the process, was unnecessary with the majorities held by Democrats. Looking at the current situation in the Senate with the election of Republican Scott Brown, the administration gave up after a year of work. I should note that the solidarity among the GOP, save Rep. Cao (R-LA) played a role as well, as they stood fairly strongly against ObamaCare in all the forms we saw it, HR 3200, HR 3962, S 1792, and Reid's amendments to HR 3590. But their numbers were insufficient to stop anything supported by the Democrat caucuses in both houses of Congress.

Mark my words, the November elections will result in a Republican majority in the House, possibly even in the Senate (If Massachusetts can turn red, ANY state can do it), and Obama will be rendered ineffective in pushing the agenda he rode into the Oval Office with. Once that occurs, the electorate will see it and he will be limited to one term as President of the United States.