A new poll is about to do what 7-plus hours of health care summit could not - make political news. According to Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll released this morning, only 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of President Barack Obama's performance; 55% disapprove. This matches the lowest level of total approval yet measured for this president. (source)

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Just one-third of the interviews included in this poll were conducted after yesterday's health care summit and I would not be surprised if the numbers drop further once all polls are based on post-summit interviews. Not only did Mr. Obama not gain any traction for his mammoth health care bill during the summit, his closing remarks proved, as many suspected, that he never had any intention of compromising on the issue:

"We cannot have another year-long debate about this," Mr. Obama said, "So the question that I'm going to ask myself and I ask of all of you is, is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few weeks' time or six weeks' time we could actually resolve something? And if we can't, then I think we've got to go ahead and make some decisions, and then that's what elections are for. We have honest disagreements about - about the vision for the country and we'll go ahead and test those out over the next several months till November. All right?" (source)

Translation: He couldn't bully the Republicans into accepting what the majority of the American people do not want and will therefore do whatever he can to ram Obamacare down the collective throats of us all before we are able to stop him and his cronies at the ballot box in November.

The only question, which existed before the summit and still hangs in the air today, is will enough Congressional Democrats blindly follow their growingly unpopular leader to the edge of the political cliff and stand there passively until the voters push them off in November?