After all, the GOP presented substantive proposals on health care reform months ago, and the Democrats belittled them, ignored them, and claimed they did not exist. Why help Øbama pull his chestnuts out of the fire now that he is on the ropes?

President Barack Obama invited Republican and Democratic lawmakers from the House and Senate to a Feb. 25 meeting to discuss ways to get an overhaul of the U.S. health-care system through Congress.

Obama said he wants lawmakers “to put their ideas on the table.” The president spoke during a live televised interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric during the network’s Super Bowl pregame show yesterday.

We put up with months of Øbama and his minions negotiating in secret, offering recalcitrant Democrats deals that were akin to bribes, and telling the GOP to take it or leave it – all while claiming that the only reason the GOP opposed the resulting abortion of a bill was that they were playing partisan games. In the mean time, the American people rejected what Barack what wrought. Do we really need to give him an opportunity to win a battle that he has already lost – especially since the American people were behind that defeat?