One good fallout from local town halls is the face to face interaction the public gets with their elected representatives.

What some democrats and nationalized health care proponents are calling “anti-American” and “mobs”, intelligent critics like Camille Paglia are calling like it is–rational reactions to false promises.

Obama’s aggressive endorsement of a healthcare plan that does not even exist yet, except in five competing, fluctuating drafts, makes Washington seem like Cloud Cuckoo Land. The president is promoting the most colossal, brazen bait-and-switch operation since the Bush administration snookered the country into invading Iraq with apocalyptic visions of mushroom clouds over American cities.

You can keep your doctor; you can keep your insurance, if you’re happy with it, Obama keeps assuring us in soothing, lullaby tones. Oh, really? And what if my doctor is not the one appointed by the new government medical boards for ruling on my access to tests and specialists? And what if my insurance company goes belly up because of undercutting by its government-bankrolled competitor? Face it: Virtually all nationalized health systems, neither nourished nor updated by profit-driven private investment, eventually lead to rationing.

Paglia wants to know when heads like Nancy Pelosi’s are going to roll, and that is a good question. But it must be admitted that for all of her shrill outrage and rhetorical blunders, Pelosi is simply carrying out Obama’s policies. When it come to the issues, they are, insanely, one. Calling for replacements who will tow the party line and yet still appear to be in their right mind is not easy, just look at Howard Dean.

It’s looking like enough Americans see the dire consequences of nationalized healthcare to give lawmakers pause which puts Obama in a hard place. Not only will he have to take a loss in the form of a vastly reduced bill, he will also now have to deal with a battered cabinet. His plummeting approval ratings are all bound up with them and the Dems have so much power that no Republican contingency can serve as a scapegoat. One can only hope that these events reveal to more people the gargantuan inefficiencies and waste that the government perpetrates. Maybe someday we’ll even get a candidate who tells our country to produce more, budget, save, and live within our means, and then plan (without lying) to run the nation the same way. Like Ron Paul with charisma. I’m not holding my breath.