Early this year while the health care reform debate was raging, President Barack Obama declared that he'd "rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." In the wake of last week's midterm election results and the president’s reaction to them, a third option is now a very real possibility. Will a man who promised to fundamentally transform the country be remembered by history as a mere footnote; a one-term president whose only memorable achievement was being the first African American to hold the office?

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Senate Republicans have a counter attack ready if, despite the president's allegedly bipartisan summit, Democrats try to pass Obamacare via mis-use of the reconciliation process. While that process requires only a simple majority to pass a bill and limits debate time, it does not limit the number or content of proposed amendments to a reconciliation bill and Republicans could offer hundreds of them, forcing Democrats to vote on each one.

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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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President Obama made an extremely rare weekend visit to Capitol Hill today desperately trying to get free-thinking Democrats to fall in line on Obamacare. No one knows exactly what kind of behind-closed-door deals were offered (or closed) but it's likely that billions of dollars in bribes...err, earmarks were proposed. Also, offers of political support in upcoming primaries were probably made or threatened to be withheld depending on whether moderate and conservative Democrats choose to vote for the president's far left agenda or side with the will of their own constituents.

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