A year after telling Congress to please fix health care, and months after both legislative bodies passed health care bills, President Obama has released his own Health Care Reform Bill, which is apparently a fancy website.

And what a fancy website it is, too! Our favorite part is the tab called "Republican ideas." When you click on that it should either give you a 404 or maybe send you to an archived copy of Bob Dole's "modest" 1994 "compromise" bill, which is more or less indistinguishable from this socialist government takeover.

The Prez's Bill is basically the Senate Bill with slightly better subsidies and this new Health Insurance Rate Authority that will reject unfair rate increases. Not that exciting! But it provides our ridiculous, irresponsible press corps with an opportunity to talk about the substance of the bill for a few days instead of just saying "chaos" and "disarray" over and over again. And as people learn what is in this stupid bill, they tend to like it more. (Except for some of it, obviously, like the bits that are necessary to pay for it, because paying for shit sucks.)

(One of the worst things about Barack Obama remains his absolute insistence on always using Reaganite frames for liberal proposals. When you call subsidies for poor people a "middle class tax cut" you are actually approaching Orwellian doubletalk. That is some bullshit.)

What happens next is that Republicans begin spinning the bill as a "backroom deal" and calling the new Rate Authority a "government takeover" or something (they will have a better, crazier frame for it, actually) then there will be this bipartisan summit where Mitch McConnell will just wave a piece of paper that says "Tort Reform" on it and say "no, you are the Party of No, Mr. Jerk President," and eventually Bill Kristol will go on a Sunday show to explain that if the president wants to help the Democrats he should give up on health insurance reform and bomb Iran, and David Brooks and Dana Milbank will nod.

The good news is that Harry Reid has suggested a willingness to use reconciliation to pass with a simple majority the bill that has already passed with a supermajority. Before America elected the Naked Guy as our new Shadow President. Joe Lieberman will probably complain about this and Evan Bayh will double-retire, because of the nasty partisanship involved in passing legislation that actually attempts to do anything.

So until the next entirely unexpected and hilarious setback, we're back in this thing!