Process doesn't matter to the president

President Obama doesn't care about the process and he's sure you don't, either. Watch the clip from tonight's interview with Bret Baier, which Baier characterizes as more "combative" than is customary for him, and read this information-packed post from Allahpundit:

“So Washington gets very concerned with these procedures in Congress, whether Republicans are in charge or Democrats are in charge,” [President Obama] said.

By “very concerned,” I presume he means that Republicans will sue his ass if he tries this. Which they will: Jon Kyl told Hugh Hewitt that there’ll be lawsuits aimed at both the process and substance (read: the individual mandate) of the bill, and Virginia’s attorney general went so far as to send Pelosi a letter all but threatening a Supreme Court challenge if she goes ahead with the Slaughter strategy. In fact, Mark Levin’s legal foundation has already drafted the papers. All they’re waiting for is Pelosi to pull the trigger — which, as I’ve said all along, I suspect she won’t do. Too many risks, too few benefits. For what little it’s worth, a Freeper claims to have contacted John Barrow’s office this afternoon to complain about the Slaughter plan and been told that it was dead as of just 15 minutes before. Something to keep an eye on if you’re watching the wires.

Don't know about that. But there's trouble in paradise with the CBO scoring of the bill, which Pelosi hasn't yet tweaked to an acceptable level, and with big labor, who was scheduled to have a pow-wow with its puppet the president this afternoon.

And this just in: Chris Matthews deems "deeming" as a terrible move politically for the Democrats.

*Updating: Here's Allahpundit's post-interview post, including video of the entire video. Kudos to Bret Baier from the Corner:

Bret Baier just concluded the single best interview of President Obama in a year, by any reporter. He was resilient in the face of the president’s obvious attempts to run down the clock by stonewalling; Bret continually hammered a series of questions the president did not want, and yet he was polite in explaining to the president the meaning of the questions just in case they were not what the president was familiar with (see the question about Connecticut for example). It was a model of how not to be cowed by a strong and charismatic leader and a model of a truly independent anchor/reporter. [RTR]

I'm trying to sit through it. But it's hard when the president says things like this (roughly): He hopes the vote will take place this week, but we'll all have time to examine the bill! It will be posted for "many days" before it passes. How can that be? It's Wednesday night and there's no bill yet.

Obama starts getting really annoyed at about 11 minutes in.

I question his assertions that premiums are skyrocketing by 40%.

Made it through. Yes, Baier was excellent.

Thanks to MichelleMalkin.com for linking.
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