Helpful Hints For The Republican Leadership

When you're planning to attend a bipartisan summit to work out your differences in the health care reform bill next week, it's generally helpful not to go on record as saying there is no way your party will say yes to the bill this week.

At CPAC this morning, Cantor declared that "we will say no to this health care bill because no is what the American people want."

Asked moments earlier about what might be "up the sleeves" of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Cantor said, "Lord only knows what's up their sleeves."

Cantor said Democratic health bills are predicated on "back-door dealing" and declared that "these bills are ultimately designed to lead this country to a single-payer system, something that the American people reject."

Now, you know and I know that the Republicans never had any intention of saying yes to any health care bill whatsoever as long as Obama is President.  But it's going to take this summit to prove it.  Luckily, the Democratic solution to a bill the "American people reject" is to make a better bill with the public option.

PS.  Feel free to pass this advice along to Mike Pence, too.