1.  While Americans oppose Obamacare 58% to 39%, President Obama and the Democrats are obsessed with trying to pass it.
 
The latest Rasmussen Reports found only 19% of the people are strongly supportive of Obamacare, while 48% are strongly against it.
 
89% of Republicans are against Obamacare, including 75% who are strongly against it.
 
66% of independents oppose Obamacare, including 57% who strongly oppose it.
 
But 72% of Democrats like Obamacare, including 37% who are strongly for it.
 

The Associated Press reported that, at a recent meeting of the Democratic National Committee, the President received a standing ovation when he declared, "Let me be clear: I am not going to walk away from health care insurance reform."
 
In an interview with CQ-Roll Call, Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to explain away the Massachusetts Senate election, in which Republican Scott Brown was elected by making opposition to Obamacare his principal issue.
 
She said, “You have to weigh it.  What really went into this?”
 
Pelosi argued that the people did not want to incur additional taxes that were part of the Senate version of Obamacare, but “We don’t have that in our House bill, so we don’t have to defend that position.”
 
Actually, both the House and Senate versions of Obamacare are viewed negatively by voters, so 61% say Congress should scrap what has been done so far and start over.  Just 28% believe it is better to build on the current legislation.
 
In fact, only 35% of the people think Congress should pass health care reform in 2010, while 54% would rather wait until new members of the House and Senate are elected.
 
A Rasmussen poll found that, on the issue of health care, voters trust Republicans over Democrats, 49% to 37%.
 
And Rasmussen Reports said this was carrying over to many other elections as well.  “For now at least, voter unhappiness with the health care reform plan seems to be hurting the reelection chances of incumbent Democratic senators in several states including Arkansas, California, Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”
 
 
2.  The President has invited GOP members of Congress to a February 25 meeting to discuss health care. 
 
But some Republicans doubt that Obama is really interested in their input and that meeting would only be a media event that he would manipulate.
 
However, in his column, Dick Morris says Republicans should go that meeting “with concrete and well-articulated proposals… including cost-saving measures such as allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines” and “Medical Savings Accounts and expansions of current tax breaks to encourage people and small businesses to purchase insurance.”
 
Morris especially recommends tort reform to put reasonable caps on malpractice insurance, which would dramatically lower premiums for doctors and thereby reduce the costs of health care for patients.
 
“The Republicans need to explain how much of the unnecessary medical costs are being driven by useless tort litigation. In Mississippi, where they acted to preclude much of it, malpractice premiums have declined by 50 percent,” Morris wrote.
 
The problem is that liberals are adamantly opposed to tort reform, because plaintiff lawyers contribute heavily to the Democratic Party.
 
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, former Speaker Newt Gingrich and John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis also present 10 GOP ideas to reform health care.