Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead

No, not Nancy Pelosi. The witch, in this case, is the Democrats' health care reform bill.

Maybe we should say, Ping Pong, The Monstrosity is Dead. Ping pong is, of course, the strategy that the Democrats were going to use to pass the bill without having to go through the formal conference committee procedure. But now, according to a blog post by Allahpundit over at HotAir, some influential House liberals have just informed Nancy P that they won't vote for the Senate bill. With that option for passing a health care bill off the table, and with Democrats refusing to ram a bill through before Scott Brown can be seated...it looks like we've, some way, somehow, miraculously dodged what seemed to be inevitable just a week ago.

Polls have shown for months now that the majority of Americans don't like either the House or the Senate bill. They hate what's in it, they don't like the cost of it, and they loathe the backroom bribes (e.g. Ben Nelson's "Cornhusker Kickback") and closed door meetings that got it passed.

Now, the voters have spoken through the ballot box as well as the public opinion polls.

So what's next? Beats me. See, we DO need genuine health care reform that controls costs and increases consumer choice. But we DON'T need the awful Obama plan, or anything resembling it. We must start from square one, and it now looks like that's what's going to happen.

So we've been saved from an ill-advised attempt to reform the health care system. We're fortunate. Now it's time to elect some legislators in November who will pursue true reforms that the American people actually want.