Yesterday’s summit did clarify one thing that sometimes gets forgotten. At the heart of this discussion is fundamental belief by the majority party that a bigger government is always a better government. If you delete all the controversial statements made yesterday, the silly sob stories that prove nothing, and the President’s ego (whose size is surpassed only by our national debt), you see that Democrats don’t see anything wrong with giant government.

To defend the big government platform, Obama simply points to statism that already exists in the country. That shouldn’t sit well with conservatives who want to see the country head toward smaller government and a healthy respect for the 10th amendment. For anyone who thought that Democrats are idiots, or these are simply goof balls who have no clue what they are trying to implement, yesterday proved those people wrong. These liberals know exactly what they are trying to do, and they make no apologies for doing it.

When Eric Cantor (R-Rep) started talking, he had the massive Senate bill in front of him. Obama displayed his arrogance at full blast by ripping Cantor for bringing “props” to the meeting. For conservatives, showing the public the massive size of a government bill is not a prop. You can’t possibly digest what’s in a 2,200 page bill. The liberals know it and that’s why they like it. There is no end to the increased regulation and silly bureaucracies contained in the bill. Eric wants people to know that. Obama chided:

“…health care is very complicated. And we can try to pretend that it’s not, but it is.”

Mr. Obama forgets he isn’t writing medical literature. Yes, health care is amazingly complicated, but a bill whose stated goal is to expand coverage doesn’t need to be.

Bottom line, we have a diabolical, egotistical man in the White House bent on the Federal government controlling almost anything they can get their hands on. You can’t win when you talk with someone like that. I have liberal friends and they are nice enough people, but they simply cannot comprehend the Constitution, and they don’t want to try.

The good news is that support is beginning to erode (albeit slowly) in the House. As we get closer to November that will likely become even more true. Republicans did the right thing to stand against this bill (one of the few things the GOP has gotten exactly right this entire time), and yesterday they did conservatives proud, I think. You cannot talk sense into this bunch of liberals though. You have to simply fight them. It sounds like yesterday’s pompous parade could fire up the GOP to continue to do that. Then in November, we fire the liberals.

“If our leaders cannot agree to the Mount Vernon Statement, they are part of the problem and should be replaced.”

I would tend to agree. As far as small government and limits of government intervention in our lives, the Mt. Vernon Statement would seem to fulfill every conservative’s wildest dreams. However, such agreements aren’t really new. Allegedly conservative politicians know full well what their platform dictates. It’s the threat of losing votes (primarily from senior citizens) that leads them to bad decision making time and again.

With the February 25th meeting with Obama looming, the GOP may just get a chance to prove they can by softening their resistance to Medicare cuts. It’s a $32.4 trillion dollar problem that desperately needs a Mt. Vernon solution.