The first I heard of Congress' plan to pass Obamacare by next week was on Rush Limbaugh's radio show today. His sources are articles by Brian Darling published on Human Events' web site and by Conn Carroll on the Heritage Foundation's web site.

Having lived in Washington, DC for 10 years, nothing shocks me when it comes to sneaky mechanisms to get around the will of the American people. There is a condition known as Potomac Fever and it infects many who live or work inside the Beltway. Some of the symptoms are warped priorities and forgetfulness as to who works for whom. I was lucky to escape town with some rational brain cells left intact.

The plan is to take the 2 Senate health care bills, cherry-pick the provisions best liked by the White House and Harry Reid, and combine them into one bill. It will be attached to the Tarp bill as an amendment and passed. The reason for using the Tarp bill is that it has already passed the House and therefore provides the basis for some fun procedural maneuvering. The Tarp bill being used is the one passed by the House during the AIG bonus debacle in which certain people are being singled out and having the living daylights taxed out of them for having the audacity to accept bonuses that certain members of Congress and the White House knew about and blessed in advance. Only in Washington can you exhibit this kind of chutzpah and the media just yawns.

Now that the secret plan is not so secret, maybe Democratic leaders will slink back into their dark little holes to hatch another dastardly plot to circumvent the will of the people; but maybe not. It is up to us now to keep a close watch on our elected officials and remind them that they will be held accountable for their actions.