Ordinarily when both sides in a negotiation are unhappy with the outcome, it means a compromise has been achieved. But the 11th hour debt deal reached between Congressional leaders is far from a compromise. It is a resounding defeat for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats and it is proof that Republicans cannot achieve significant victory until after November of 2012.

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It's obvious from the concessions made by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats that they cannot make a reasonable case for their various positions on raising the debt ceiling. Mr. Obama keeps scolding his political opposition, demonizing Americans who already pay the lion's share of federal taxes and threatening our most vulnerable citizens with starvation and homelessness; but he and his Congressional accomplices can not explain why higher taxes, more borrowing and more government spending would improve the economic health of the country.

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Easter eggs won't be the only things hidden this spring. President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) plan to hop through the halls of Congress, doing whatever they can to shove their idea of health care reform through the legislative process before their fellow Democrats go home for the Easter recess and have to face their constituents.

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A bipartisan summit no one believed would change any minds. A Democratic Party who couldn't pass Obamacare even when they had a super majority. A president who is allegedly smart enough to see that he has lost the approval of most Americans on this issue. A set of rules in the Senate that offer the opposition several opportunities to block Obamacare's passage in spite of the reconciliation process. And yet the headlines blare that President Obama's intent is to push ahead. Why?

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Believe it or not, there are some very good things about last night's House passage of HR3962 also known as The Affordable Health Care For America Act. Even though the bill contains nothing more than the tax and spend, big government, corruption inducing, special interest serving, bureaucratic liberal foolishness that the American people have time and again rejected; its passage by a razor-thin 220-218 margin establishes that:

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