Obama's sinister plans for health care reform

This is just strange.

Opening a week in which health care will dominate attention in Congress, the president’s speech on Monday was the latest example of an oft-used ploy to press his case: appearing before skeptical audiences, confident of his powers of persuasion but willing as well to say what his listeners do not want to hear.

I leave it to others who know more about this stuff to determine whether the CBO's projections are correct or off-base, but...um...it's a "ploy" to talk to your skeptics?

Our discourse on health care is seriously fucked up.