Washington Times - PRUDEN: High season for fraud and farce

Washington Times - PRUDEN: High season for fraud and farce: "President Obama finally makes it back to familiar and frozen Copenhagen, scene of his earlier success in winning the Olympics for Chicago, trying to figure out a way to make zero plus zero amount to something big. His prospects are not good.

He leaves behind a chaotic debate over his health care 'reform,' a debate awash in irony, confusion and incredulity. The next stop is farce. ObamaCare, which the president promised would be a simple, thrifty, economical cure-all for the health care system, runs to 2,074 pages that a roomful of Philadelphia lawyers (or worse, Washington lawyers) couldn't parse. But what everybody does understand is that it will cost $2.5 trillion - that's a 't,' not a 'b' - that vastly expands the government bureaucracy, raises taxes and premiums on private insurance and devastates Medicare, and probably only make things worse. Other than that, it's a start.

'And here's the outrageous part,' says Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the leader of the Senate Republicans. 'At the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the majority leader's office has even seen. The final bill we'll vote on isn't even the one we've had on the floor. It's the deal Democrats have been trying to work out in private.'"