Health Care BS

House and Senate Democrats are casting desperately about for a way to salvage something from the wreck of Obamacare, and one of their ideas involves “incremental� health care reform. But House Minority Leader John Boehner isn’t having any:

Listen, our goal is to stop this monstrosity … Scrap the bill, and start over. And start over in a bipartisan way.

And he doesn’t mean he wants to revise the “reform” legislation passed last year by the Dems:

This bill is dead … Maybe It’s not quite as dead as I want it. But, until it’s dead. … Republicans are not going to work off this monstrosity. There’s just not enough common ground.

Boehner says the Dems are still not listening to the voters, even after their Bay State defeat:

The Democrats aren’t listening to the people … They’re still scheming and scrambling to find a way to pass their government takeover of health care.

Indeed they are. No doubt the White House is putting a lot of pressure on Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices to produce something (anything) the President can call “reform� and sign into law. But Boehner and the GOP have a warning for them:

If they jam it through, I think they’re going to face a firestorm from the American public.

UPDATE:

It would appear that the White House and its congressional accomplices are having difficulty deciding on the best way to ignore the voters. The Senate has no real interest in acceding to the wishes of the House:

The Senate moderates’ viewpoint is, ‘We passed our bill. We’re not going to spend three weeks on some other bill,’ said a Democratic lobbyist who represents clients pushing for reform.

And the House is worried about the intentions of Reid & Co.

Part of the negotiations center on whether Reid can provide an ironclad guarantee that the Senate will not leave the House in the lurch, aides said. If the House agrees to pass the Senate bill with a companion measure — or a “cleanup� bill — to make fixes, they want to know that the Senate will indeed pass it, too.

Here’s an idea: How about listening to the voters for once. No, really.