And he’s losing. His own party is running ads to press Democratic senators from Arkansas, Indiana, Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, Nebraska and Ohio. If Obama cannot get socialized medicine passed with a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, his political capital will tank and he’ll look extremely flaccid. Congress won’t have any reason to listen to him going forward and he’ll risk being perceived as a lame duck. He'll be relegated to policy proposals like school uniforms and midnight basketball.

Say what you want about George Bush, the guy got things done in his first term and lead. From education reform to Medicare Part D to his tax cuts, Bush signed his agenda into law despite congressional gridlock. Agree or disagree, that’s not a weak Commander-in-Chief.

Obama is just the opposite.

The President has showcased an appalling lack of leadership. He has sent no bill to the Hill. He takes no specific positions on the five bills in the House and Senate. All he has done thus far is give flowery calls to action. Either he thinks he is still a Senator or he is Chauncey Gardner.

What the President lacks in leadership he makes up for in arrogance. For the President to think that he can bully Congress and the American people into rolling over in a mere matter of weeks as he seeks to completely overhaul 20 percent of our entire economy is most disgustingly presumptuous. It is this arrogance that is preventing him from recognizing the potential fallout with Americans as portrayed thru moderate Democrats. He is bowing to the far left, and this will cost him. If he passes universal healthcare he will alienate moderate America and eventually suffer because of what it will ensue. It he doesn't pass it, he'll appear a failure, specifically with his base.

The lack of debate is even more stomach turning. Congress should start with a conversation about who these 50 million uninsured are and how we can get them insured before completely remaking the system. The CBO estimates that even with this plan, 17 million people will remain uninsured. Half of those are illegal aliens. Why can’t Congress play small ball on things like tort reform? Let boondoggle legislation like TARP and the stimulus be a lesson to all on what happens when debate is absent.

The only thing the President has revealed is his ability to spend. And spend unwisely. I ask: what’s he shown us that any woman couldn’t with an American Express at Bloomindale’s? The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the House Democratic plan will cost just over $1 trillion— that’s $1 billion in 2012 before skyrocketing to $202 billion in 2019.

After his win in November a good friend of mine predicted that Barack Obama will be the most ineffective President since Chester A. Arthur. We all laughed a hopeful, but skeptical laugh. If he can’t make this happen, he absolutely will be.