The Democrats’ are continuing their push for government-run health care, despite the strong opposition of most Americans and Republican legislators.  Their stubborn push for this horrible legislation exposes the lengths to which Democrats will go in order to bypass bipartisanship in the negotiation processes.

But don’t worry; Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi informed us that the Obama administration has the public’s best interests at heart. She also stated that Senate and House Democrats are not embroiled in the health care reform debate to “self-perpetuate” their services, but to do a job for the American people – a job that, in this case, the American people have begged Democrats to abandon over the course of nearly a year.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi also likened peddling health care reform to Americans to selling pies at a bake sale—“When we have a bill, you can bake the pie, you can sell the pie. But we have to have a pie to sell.” Despite Speaker Pelosi’s assertions otherwise, the public has made it clear that they are capable of comprehending the complexities of the health care reform debate without the Speaker of the House likening one of our country’s most pressing domestic issues to a bake sale. They are also capable of determining whether or not they want to buy the pie, regardless of how Congress and the administration decide to package it.

But despite the bill’s chronic unpopularity and the public’s increasing frustration, Democrats have continued to blindly push ahead with their plans. They refuse to give up the President’s number one priority on his domestic agenda, and are reluctant to do the right thing and start anew.

The Democratic Party has shown an unwillingness to compromise and openly accept any of the Republicans suggestions for real health care reform.  Our elected officials are supposed to speak with the voice of their constituents. What good is your voice, if the Democrats ultimately decide to ignore your opinion and stubbornly force legislation they think is best for you and your family?

The White House kicked off the week by unveiling Obama’s 11-page revision of the healthcare reform plan on its Web site at 10 a.m. this morning. Fondly referred to by Democrats as “The President’s Proposal”, the newly outlined plan builds on the existing Senate offering—and by build, I mean tack on about $200 billion dollars to a healthcare reform plan that is already budgeted for $871 billion.

“The President’s Proposal” has been released in preparation for the health care summit scheduled to take place on Thursday between the President and lawmakers at Blair House. In response to overwhelming criticism over his decision to employ backroom meetings and late night votes as a means of getting government-run health care around the American people, the Obama Administration will finally be taking part in a televised session on the President’s top domestic issue.

While the President has stated that he has all intentions of attending the Thursday meeting with an open mind and welcomes input from Republicans on the current and failing health care proposals, he has refused to scrap the existing Senate and House bills that the American public to openly abhors, and start fresh. It should be noted that this action is in direct contradiction of the fact that the President has stated that he both expects and believes that the American public should have an up or down vote on health care reform. But instead of putting his rhetoric into action, the President has chosen to begin anew by using the two existing plans which have been ill-received by the American public. However that too seems to be failing him post-election 2008 and many lawmakers and strategists suggest that Thursday’s meeting is nothing but political theater, an attempt to  salvage credibility and establish that the President is not only capable of “talking the talk” but “walking the walk.”

Not surprisingly, Republicans are rightly skeptical about the President’s willingness to accept input from the opposite side of the aisle just as members of his own Party are starting to lose faith in him. At the National Governor’s Association last week, Governor Rendell stated that the Democrats (and, more specifically, the White House) have lost the communication war with the public due to disorganization and ineffectiveness. U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) has also stated that the image the President has established is unbelievable.

Unbelievable is a great way to sum up the current health care reform proposals in a nutshell. It’s a $200 billion dollar increase proposed by the President himself that is an exercise in blatant fiscally irresponsibility. The bill provides for a Health Insurance Rate Authority Board that would make the health care system too reliant on government. And the Democrats’ current plan to potentially tack this health care bill onto the federal budget would mean that they would only need 51 votes instead of the filibuster-proof 60 to get it passed and avoid a Republican filibuster and bypass public discontent.

The only believable thing about the current state of healthcare reform and the President’s supposed “bipartisan” approach to it is that its deepening the partisan divide in Washington and Americans’ distaste for it.