It started after a long presidential introductory speech that accomplished two things: it established that the president was going to control the process and it eliminated any notion of compromise or bipartisanship. It was simply political theater.

 The Republicans refused to knuckle under to Democrat health care oratory, tactic or strategy. Republicans understood the deeper meaning of protecting the American people from the progressive/socialist attack on basic American freedoms.

 The shrill health care oratory of progressive/socialist Democrats was deflected by the keen rational analysis of Republicans who saw the Democrats’ health care plan for what it is: a path to tyranny not health care reform.

 Polls have shown the American people do not want any of the Democrats’ health care bills or their resort to reconciliation. The summit did not change the pre-summit dynamics: Republicans refuse to sign on to the horrific bills offered by the Democrats; the Democrats refuse to start over with a clean sheet of paper.

 Pelosi and Reid are at odds. Reid wants The House of Representatives to approve the senate bill first, then he will send a second bill amending the Senate bill to Pelosi’s satisfaction.  Pelsoi wants the House to Representatives to pass a reconciliation bill first then the House will approve the Senate bill. The Democrats still cannot come to agreement.

 Add to stalemate the changes in the House and Senate. Pelosi needed 220 votes to pass health care last year. Now she’ll need 217 votes due to vacancies since last year, and as the one Republican who voted yes last year will vote no this year, Pelosi only has 216 votes . . . if all the representatives who are up for re-election vote for the bill.

 In addition, there are eleven Democrats who do not like the Senate bill’s language on abortion. Pelosi now has 205 votes versus the needed 217. Reid lost his 60 seat majority but he can still pass a bill through reconciliation. But it doesn’t matter if Pelosi doesn’t have the votes.

 It seems the Republican Party may be the party of “know.”