Sounds like more and more people are smelling the shit sandwich, and nothing Republicans can do can cover the smell. Most telling, they fail to even gain a cloture vote in the senate for their stupid missionary-position only amendment. Wow, that's the most pathetic thing since Russ Feingold tried to get a censure resolution passed and no one in the senate would back him up (sorry, it was not a brave stand on his part, it's just stupid if you stick out your neck like that without first garnering support). They went ahead and tried to get it through without having a proper head count, and defections from key Republicans cost the amendment its continued debate.

Then I see this story from CNN.

"Assuring health care is a shared social responsibility," says the interim report of the Citizens' Health Care Working Group, a 14-member committee that went to 50 communities and heard from 23,000 people.

The committee describes its recommendations as a framework. The recommendations don't say who would pay for universal health coverage or how much it would cost.
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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said he and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, came up with the idea for establishing a group that would work outside of Washington to find out what Americans want. He said they were tired of years of gridlock on health care issues.

"We decided, let's try something else. Let's go to the public and give them a chance, not in terms of writing a bill, but let them provide a kind of general roadmap where the country ought to head," Wyden said.

Isn't that interesting? You go to the public to ask what they want, rather than trying to cram idiot ideas like Medicare plan D down their throats, and they say they want universal coverage. It's just a matter of time anyway, our absence of health care coverage is a comparative disadvantage internationally, is providing us with poorer health than Canadians or Brits receive even when confounding variables are controlled for, and, in the end, the government pays when people don't have insurance. Might as well enroll everybody who falls through the cracks into a universal system so they get routine screening and cheap prevention rather than unpaid ER visits and outrageously expensive interventions when things get ugly and they have to see a doctor.

So, to summarize, what do Americans care about most? The war, gas, healthcare, immigration, and other domestic issues. What do they not care about? Gay marriage. That's just the wackos, and it sounds like the people have stopped listening to their craziness. They need to see the doctor, and the gay couple next door isn't preventing that.