The quote is familiar - insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  And we now see it embodied in President Obama's (allegedly) new health reform proposal released this week.

In fact, one of the few major differences between the two boondoggles proposed by the White House and the Senate is the higher cost - President Obama's plan comes with a price tag more than $100 billion more than the Senate's $849 billion plan, at a hefty $950 billion.  In fact, the "new" plan is just a retread of the plan that was scrapped a few short weeks ago because neither the House nor the Senate had the votes to pass a compromise plan.

While various public opinion polls have shown that Americans oppose this very plan by wide margins - and have opposed it since the middle of last year, neither the President nor his allies in the House and Senate appear to have gotten the message.

Instead, it appears that those who support big government health care don't care what the American public thinks or wants.   Instead, they took the worn-out, unwanted health care plan passed by the Senate, gave it a fresh coat of paint, waited out the political storm from Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts, and have decided to make another run at ramming a bill through Congress.

By any objective measure, that's the very definition of insanity.