While on his two year presidential campaign, President Obama said many things to get elected which he regrets today, one of which he is now pursuing  – the 50 + 1 health care strategy, a move he said wouldn’t work in 2007.

He also promised a new bipartisanship in America, saying if elected, he was going to bring the nation together by forming huge Congressional majorities to support his policies.

The only majority that he might have are the partisan members of his own party, who are defecting one by one because they are getting the feeling their leadership is throwing them under the bus just before the midterm elections.

Today Obama delivered his 35th staged event on health care with a backdrop of Doc’s and Nurses clapping like trained penguins.

He urged Congress to act in the next ‘few weeks’ on health care declaring ‘it’s time to make a decision,’ on the package a product of a yearlong debate.

Although Obama did not bring up the word reconciliation, it is the only way they can get the bill through with a 50 +1 strategy because health care reform is ‘right’ even if it has electoral consequences.  Easy for Obama to say, he is not up for re-election in 2010.

Republicans are opposed to the legislation and has demanded that Congress start over again.

Sen. Mitch McConnell Republican leader said that a Dem move to invoke rules that bar a filibuster would be ‘met with outrage’ by voters.

He said Obama was pushing a sweeping bill that the public doesn’t.  This is proven by polls on the bill and Obama’s job performance, the lowest since he’s been elected.