Thanks to Wendell Primus, Speaker Pelosi’s top health care aid, we now know that President Obama’s health care summit isn’t a substantive meeting. Rather, it’s a total farce. Here’s how we know that:

In comments reported by Congress Daily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate’s pro-abortion, government-run health care bill.

Primus explained that the Senate will use the controversial reconciliation strategy that will have the House approve the Senate bill and both the House and Senate okaying changes to the bill that the Senate will sign off on by preventing Republicans from filibustering.

“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.

Any Democrat that votes for this bill should be targeted this fall. If you think that people are upset with Speaker Pelosi’s Democrats now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. If a bill this unpopular gets passed by using this type of trickery, the political bloodshed this November will be massive.

You think that people were upset this past August during the townhalls across the country? If Democrats vote for this, then Democrats will encounter angry voters that’ll make them wish for the good old days of August, 2009. Those voters will have so much adrenaline pumping through their veins that they’ll be able to spit nails through a brick wall from 50 yards.

The Democrats’ bill hasn’t gotten 40 percent support since last April. If President Obama signs that bill into law, his support will drop into the low 30s. Independents will flee the Democratic Party like they were selling nuclear waste.

The lesson that must be taken from this is that President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid can’t be trusted. Pelosi’s scheme isn’t a secret to the White House. If they didn’t devise this strategy, they’ve, at minimum, had significant input into this strategy. That means that President Obama’s invitation to Republican leadership for a health care summit was about staging a photo op. It wasn’t about having a good faith negotiating session. That’s why Robert Gibbs refused to take reconciliation off the table.

Mark Tapscott’s observations are spot on:

The comments from Primus raise an obvious question: Since it is inconceivable that Democratic congressional leaders are moving in this direction without the knowledge of the White House, why call a health care summit and challenge congressional Republicans to come with their best ideas when the plan is already in place to use legislative trickery to pass Obamacare?

The most logical answer would seem to be that the summit is part and parcel of a White House/congressional Democratic strategy to distract attention from what is about to happen on the Hill. It’s the classic magician’s trick of distracting you with the left hand while the right hand does the “trick.”

Considering this new information, it’s imperative that Republicans hit the airwaves and tell the nation that President Obama’s invitation isn’t a good faith effort to negotiate a health care bill that the American people can support. Republicans everywhere should flood the airwaves and TV with the message that, despite President Obama’s cries for bipartisanship, President Obama is only interested in signing legislation that contains the language that leads to the federal government’s takeover the health care industry.

The Democrats’ treachery on this will have some consequences that might bite them in the backside:

The states, as sovereign entities, granted express and limited powers to the federal government by way of the United States Constitution. To prevent one branch of the federal government from exceeding its express and limited powers, we have a “horizontal” system of checks and balances, the three branches of the federal government.

However, we also have a “vertical” system of checks and balances between the states and the federal government. This vertical system of checks and balances has been used too infrequently, but Virginia is now using it to declare our own law regarding healthcare freedom as a means to counteract an unconstitutional law (if it passes) at the federal level. This would create a conflict of laws.

But as James Madison wrote in Federalist 51, freedom is best protected when political ambition counteracts political ambition. Virginia is protecting the freedom of its citizens by “checking” the federal leviathan on the matter of healthcare.

The courts would need to resolve the coming conflict. Ultimately, however, the voters will decide: do federal politicians who may vote for Obamacare stand with the people and the Constitution? Virginians are saying “no” on a bi-partisan basis.

The thought that a Democratic-controlled legislature is about to pass legislation that would prevent the federal government from imposing mandates on the state should startle and scare Democrats living near the Mason-Dixon line. Let’s understand that Gov. McDonnell will fight Obamacare in the courts and that he’ll have lots of support from other states’ attorneys general if it gets that far.

If President Obama signs a bill that imposes individual mandates but lets unions escape a huge tax increase, non-union households will be furious. This stunt indicates that President Obama knows that he’s lost independents and that his base is fracturing. He has to act like he’s still fighting because, if he doesn’t, unions will stop supporting Democratic candidates. If they do that, a bad election cycle will turn into an historic disaster for the Democrats.

President Obama’s invitation is meant to help him appear interested in bipartisanship. It isn’t meant to provide him with a vehicle for being a bipartisan president. Like everything else about President Obama, it’s all about appearances. It isn’t about achieving victories that garner the support of the American people.

During the 2006 campaign, Republicans frequently talked about Speaker Pelosi’s “San Francisco values.” It didn’t work then because people hadn’t seen her priorities or her proclivity for hardball politics. now they have and they don’t like what they see. They now have proof that she can’t be trusted. For that matter, they understand that she’ll bully her spineless puppet, aka Blue Dog Democrats, into doing whatever she tells them to do.

The American people are finally speaking with a unified, clear voice that they want this Congress and this administration to get out of their way. Additionally, they want them to work on common sense solutions. This Democratic congress and this administration hasn’t done that. They’ve tried playing PR games while ignoring the will of the people.

It’s apparent that neither this president nor the Democratic leadership is interested in the opinions of the American people. It’s equally apparent that they’d rather listen to their special interest allies, even if that means pulling the types of stunts that they’re currently planning.

That isn’t what servant leadership is about. In fact, it’s the opposite of what servant leadership is about. That’s why I wouldn’t trust President Obama, Speaker Pelosi or Sen. Reid any farther than I could throw them if I had 2 broken arms and a bad back. They’ve done nothing to earn my trust.

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Cross-posted at California Conservative