A poll commissioned by Pajamas Media yielded the following insights:

· Most Americans oppose (81%) health care reforms that would increase insurance premiums for healthy people to offset premiums of people who wait until they are diagnosed with an illness to purchase insurance.

· Eight Americans in ten (81%) oppose allowing the government to decide what kind of health care coverage Americans are able to purchase.

· Most Americans (87%) oppose having a government panel recommend or decide what medical procedures or medical advances your doctor or health plan can or cannot use.

· Three in four Americans (76%) oppose health care reforms that would raise taxes and cut Medicare benefits to pay for health care subsidies for expanded coverage for those currently insured.

I still don't think a lot of Americans appreciate that these aspects of a government-run health-care program aren't optional--they define socialized medicine, as does the government's right to dictate your life-style choices out of a fiduciary responsibility to 'the taxpayers'. This was in fact the rationale used to justify mandatory seat-belt laws in Canada back in the 1980s.

I'm not surprised that Americans overwhelmingly reject Obamacare--they are after all "Americans", with all that being an American means. What bewilders me are all the other people. What astonishes me is the kamikaze drive behind this damn the torpedoes, rush-the-machine-gun effort to pass healthcare legislation.

I saw a clip of Brit Hume being interviewed and stating an obvious but seldom expressed observation that at no time in his long career has he ever seen anything like this. While the economy crumbles around our ears, the Democrats have spent over a year trying by any means possible to pass a healthcare bill, sacrificing elected officials along the way, incurring the wrath of the electorate, and removing an pretense of a claim to the name "Democrat".

Its almost comical how they insist that their maniacal single-mindedness is done purely from motives of covering 'poor, uninsured people' and rescuing the country from certain destruction. We can only guess at the real motives, but you'd better believe that there is a pretty big pot of gold at then end of this rainbow.