Yes, any passed bill will be a victory for Obama.

It will allow the MSM to have a victory to spin in Obama’s direction: “statesmanlike,” “bipartisan,” “compromiser,” “practical decision-maker,” etc.

Such a bill would be a framework on which to incrementally over time to add provisions such as death counseling(or “end of life” counseling if you prefer), paying doctors to take certain treatment strategies, a “public option” designed to drain customers away from private insurance, government boards and panels to decide who receives treatment, and what types of treatment they may receive, government-dictated rationing and many other unwise provisions they may be able to cook up in their socialist minds.

The Republicans should hold out for tort reform. That, in itself, could prevent any bill from being passed — considering how much weight trial lawyers carry among the Democrats.

The Republicans should loudly and publicly offer to compromise on insurance reform, but only benign reforms such as allowing insurance commerce across state borders, standardization of insurance administrative forms and terminology, and ending frivolous insurance policy recisions and frivolous pre-existing condition insurance rulings.

The best thing for healthcare in this country at this time would probably be no legislation at all. Some sane healthcare reform might be possible under a Republican-controlled Congress but as long as Obama is in office and Congress is controlled by the Democrats any reforms are almost certain to contain poison pills.

From my perspective, I think the next items we should be concerned about are, first, attempts by the FCC’s new far Left Chavezista “diversity czar” Mark Lloyd (see http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d27-FCC-diversity-czar-proves-Obama-govt-has-declared-war-on-America and here http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=4608) to shut down dissenting media on the Right via his newly proposed 100% annual tax on private broadcasters. And, second, Senator Rockefeller’s revised bill, S. 773, to give the White House the ability to shut down portions of the Internet at will in an “emergency” (see http://blogs.computerworld.com/14627/obamas_emergency_powers_over_internet_cybersecurity_bill_s_773).

The extra-Constitutional Czars are a particularly insidious development, since by their appointments–by the way, unchallenged in any effective or full-throated way that I am aware of by anybody in authority–no lawsuits–no hearings, no letters to the WH demanding answers–Obama has set up his own “shadow government,” unvetted by Congress, immune so far from Congressional scrutiny or oversight–as if anyone in the Democratic majority would dare to call them to accounts or allow Republicans to do so–and accountable to no one but Obama. News that Czars, like the new FCC diversity Czar, want to act through regulation rather than law makes it harder, I believe, for Congress to challenge their actions.

Amidst all these threatening developments, we might also reflect on Glenn Beck’s notion that all of the high visibility threats we see are just showy, glittery “distractions,” designed to fix our attention on them, and away from Obama’s other hand, which is busy performing the real tasks of his totalitarian revolution, out of easy visibility.

“Thomass: You’ve got a point. Even if the US and OAS manage to force Zelaya on Honduras, few Americans this side of Bill Ayers are going to celebrate. Assuming Americans notice”

The real pain of the tea party movement to the left will not be protests; it will be the forming of new communication networks of people conscious of their opposition to the left’s program… they in turn can work on getting the message out beyond their group/s to moderates.

It could be a conservative version of moveon before long.

However, if the Hondurans manage to hold out, it’s another checkmarked failure for the Obama administration, despite Obama’s savant-like 3-D chess abilities.

Obama’s hard leftiness aside, a lot of people on his side are wondering at his effectiveness, as well they should.

This administration needs a win. Or more accurately, it can’t bear another loss right now. Most especially it can’t afford to be defeated by the government of a puny Central American country that doesn’t seem to know its place in the world and dares to defy the imperial orders of Uncle Sam.

Obama vs. Honduran Democracy

“I think he’ll do something sneaky with healthcare, trying to look bipartisan and statesman-like, and try to get it passed that way. We need to be on our toes.”

Yeah, if republicans had any brains they’d demand any new bill be:
1) Short
2) In plain English.

No more 1000+ page bills in impenetrable gobbly gook.

I read California laws now and then on line and they’re easy reading…. there is no reason laws can not be easy to understand.