Last night, the United States Senate voted 54-to-45 to kill an amendment by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). The Nelson/Hatch amendment would have prohibited taxpayer dollars from subsidizing abortions in ObamaCare. This vote virtually guarantees that the socialized medicine scheme will use your hard-earned money to pay for the destruction of innocent life. This vote comes in spite of the fact that two polls last month conducted by the liberal media found that 61% of the American people oppose taxpayer-funding of abortion.

It is also being reported that Senate Democrats have reached a breakthrough on the public option. According to various reports, the deal involves expanding Medicare to include uninsured individuals 55 years old or older, some combination of private and non-profit health insurance options as well as a public option trigger. There are several problems with this approach, including that Democrats are proposing to expand Medicare while cutting half a trillion dollars from its budget.

Here are some reactions to Obama’s West Point speech that may surprise you.

“Reporters love a deadline — we’ll hound him over it. Just wait until next year. There will be flashy graphics on our screens saying, ‘Countdown to Drawdown.’” That might sound like sarcasm from Sean Hannity, but it actually came from CBS’s Kimberly Dozier.

“How do you on the one hand say: ‘We need to send these troops over there; it’s critical; this is in our national-security interest to do this.’ But then say: ‘But we’re only going to keep them there for 18 months; we’re going to start to withdraw them after 18 months’? I just don’t understand the logic of how that works. …This is not a football game, where the time runs out. To win this war, you have to defeat the enemy.” Glenn Beck? No, that was veteran CBS anchor Bob Schieffer.

Here’s one more: “Where’s the hope? … It sounds more Rube Goldberg than ‘Remember the Alamo.’ … If I were with the Taliban right now, I’d put a little Post-it up on that month in 2011, and say: ‘This is when we do OUR surge.’” Rush Limbaugh? Believe it or not, that was MSNBC’s Chris Matthews speaking Tuesday night, after he had thought more about the substance of Obama’s remarks.

If liberal media elites are starting to second-guess Obama, I suspect millions of Americans are too!