83% to be precise.

You can't find that kind of consensus on anything these days. Except perhaps for Obama's claim that 80% of Congress agrees on the nuts and bolts of health care.

Of course I agree, but I'd even be satisfied with a bill that mandated that Congress read the friggin' laws before they pass them.

This is such a no-brainer that you have to seriously wonder why there isn't 100% support in Congress for this. 

It's because 1000 pages for a health care bill means there's a whole lot of nonsense in there that won't see the light of day until far after the bill is passed. The lawmakers have no interest in us knowing what is actually in the bill. They know that if we actually did know, the 56% of people who dislike health care now would rise dramatically, making it next to impossible to sell to the American People.

Our only hope otherwise is for some enterprising young congressional staffer to leak the bill to somplace like Heritage or Cato. I'm taking bets that should that happen, the New York Times will denounce it and call for the snitch's arrest above the fold the next day.

Russ