WHERE'S THE BENEFIT?

Most Americans want health care reform if it will bring cost down and maintain quality.

So our president and his Democratic allies - possibly in another teaching moment - filled our news media and Congressional Budget Office with a pile of proposals. And because Americans are optimistic, we jumped in and started digging through the pile, even though that pile looked and smelled like manure. But we figured that with all that manure, there had to be a pony in there somewhere.

We kept digging through the Democrat proposals in search of the pony. But there was no pony.

But the good news is that there's plenty of manure.