President Obama is Picking the Wrong Embassy Roof on Which to Die

Ludicrous over the top imagery aside, the Obama administration really has come to the end of the line on the Healthcare issue.  Most Canadians have a hard time grasping this, because quite frankly we get indoctrinated to trust no American news sources other than those on the left.
Canada abuts mainly blue states, and because right wing information sources tend to be polemical (and polemics are so impolite!) we tend not to trust them.  Also, we like the feeling of smug intellectual superiority complexes, so whenever ABC or CBS, or even the execrable MSNBC tells us there is nothing to see and Healthcare will pass, we believe it.  Furthermore, inexplicably, Canadians associate single-payer healthcare with the national identity.  You wouldn't believe the looks I get when I point out all the flaws in the system and suggest private care would be better.

The point is that, objectively speaking, once President Obama accidentally made clear exactly what his agenda was (in some 400-odd public comments and appearances in just over a year), the American public massively rejected it.  Mark Steyn points out, in his weekly Hugh Hewitt show appearance, that the American public started out at 70% in favour of healthcare reform.  Now that they know exactly what reforms are planned, they are 70% against. Ouch.  Things have gotten so bad that Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) opened her campaign with an Ad that basically says "I'm a Democrat, but not in favour of doing any of those things the Democratic Party wants".  Yeah, from the home state of Slick Willy comes a savage beating for the Democratic Party.

Media elites like to complain that the Republican Party has become "the party of no".  As the delightful Ann Coulter said in one of her columns, "when it comes to Obamacare, Americans don't want a party of "No," they want a party of "Hell, No!" or, as Rahm Emanuel might say, "*&^%$#@ No!"