The Great Health Care Summit

Seems quite obvious now that the health care summit was nothing but a ruse all along. Obama was to appear bipartisan while Republicans were to be goaded into being rude and appear obstructionist. It has also been clear since Democrats have already been working on a reconciliation bill that would bypass a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate, even though it is still unlikely such a bill would pass the House. Regardless, some of the highlights and comments from today's show:

1. Supposedly bipartisan, but Democrats have almost twice as much speaking time as Republicans.


2. Obama doesn't count his time speaking since he's the President.


3. Trying to paint Republicans as obstructionist. Wait...don't Democrats have a majority in both Houses? How can Republicans stop anything even remotely moderate?


4. New tactic? Target talk radio.

Of course, Democrats also played the sob stories right away (wait...didn't Obama say throughout the summit they wanted to talk about issues? A number of Republicans brought up legitimate issues, and to be honest I though the President was rather rude to them. Anyone else get that feeling?