While Nancy Pelosi advises us that she will pole vault or parachute her National Healthcare Bill through Congress, her fellow Democrats like Jason Altmire, of Pennsylvania aren’t so keen on seeing Ms. Pelosi’s Olympic skills. As Mr. Altmire recently stated, “I don’t know that Congress has the appetite to continue the fight.”

It is this type of sentiment that has also recently been expressed in the Senate, for example, when Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas recently stated, “there’s a real possibility that reform would not be completed before the mid-term elections take place.” While the White House is begging Democrats to push National Healthcare through Congress using the reconciliation process (where only 50 votes would be needed to pass the Bill in the Senate) it is not going over so well as Senators such as Evan Bayh (D – Indiana) and Blanche Lincoln (D – Arkansas) who have stated they won’t support using the procedure to pass National Healthcare. So where does all of this leave Mr. Obama and his promise to America to reform our healthcare system? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, Democrats are going through their own seven stages of grief and are still hovering somewhere between shock and denial after Scott Brown’s victory that was the shot heard round the world. So even though Mr. Obama wants to better explain his proposed takeover of 1/6^th of the economy to everyone, Americans aren’t ready to listen. As demonstrated by a recent Real Clear Politics Poll showing 54% of the American people oppose Mr. Obama’s National Healthcare program and only 37% support it. With House and Senate Democrats running for the hills (or away from it), and the American public clearly opposed to his program, Mr. Obama appears to be the odd man out.