The video posted by Michelle Malkin at Video: No, you can’t just ram Obamacare through “fast” once again displays the administration’s fundamental inability to articulate the answers to two questions: (1) Just what is really being proposed? and (2) Why does it have to pass and be signed so quickly?

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sibelius’ answer that she’s “not a member of Congress” reeks of defensiveness and buck-passing. A logical follow-up question: has she read the proposed legislation? Isn’t health care part of her portfolio? In the private sector if you can’t clearly articulate, in one or two sentences, the key concepts of a proposal, you’ll get a round of polite “thank yous” and then you’ll be shown the door. Why can’t a senior executive responsible for an enormous federal bureaucracy do the same?

As for Senator Specter pressing the need for speed, the obvious question is why? Perhaps the need for speed is that Obama sees his falling poll numbers and expects a less favorable Congress after the 2010 elections. Sort of a “let’s ram it through, create a new tax and an enormous bureaucracy, and then even if we’re all voted out of office in the next 2 to 4 years Americans will be stuck with it” strategy. What other reason can there be?

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