Thursday's DesNews had a nice puff piece on Rep. Jim Matheson talking about his unsettled objections to the current health care "reform" bills that his Democrat leadership is trying to get passed and signed (by hook or by crook it seems).

The goal of health reform should be to reduce skyrocketing health care costs, an issue that has been lost in the maelstrom of partisan debate, he said.

Reducing health costs is key to bringing down government spending and reducing debt because health care and entitlement costs make up nearly half of the federal budget, he said.

"We won't solve the deficit problem until we solve health care costs," Matheson said. "We can't continue the status quo. We need to define the problem and then we can talk about how to solve it."

Despite what he calls a "tough environment" in Washington, the Blue Dog Democrat said he hopes "cooler heads will prevail."

"I see signs that things will get back in the right direction," he said.

Cooler heads?  So that is what Congressman Matheson calls out and out deception?

In comments reported by Congress Daily, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s top health care aide Wendell Primus admitted top Democrats have already decided on the strategy to pass the Senate's government-run health care bill that funds abortions and has other pro-abortion problems.

Primus explained that the Senate will use the controversial reconciliation strategy that will have the House approve the Senate bill and both the House and Senate okaying changes to the bill that the Senate will sign off on by preventing Republicans from filibustering.

“The trick in all of this is that the president would have to sign the Senate bill first, then the reconciliation bill second, and the reconciliation bill would trump the Senate bill,” Primus said at the National Health Policy Conference hosted by Academy Health and Health Affairs.

“There's a certain skill, there's a trick, but I think we'll get it done,” he said.

You know it is deception when even the Speakers top aid on the issue admits that it is trickery!  It is this obvious trickery that makes President Obama's February 25 "summit" with GOP leaders nothing more than a dog and pony show designed to give the President cover while Congress takes the damage.

And take the damage they will - especially "faux" Blue Dogs like Jim Matheson.  Rep. Matheson loves to talk about how moderate he is, yet he has voted WITH his party 91% of the time.  Some of those votes include Cash for Clunkers, Cap and Trade, TARP, the unConstitutional TARP bonus tax bill, Stimulus I and increasing the federal debt load.  The National Taxpayers Union gave Rep. Matheson a grade of "C-" in 2008.  Yet Rep. Matheson would have the voters believe that he is a "fiscal conservative"?

Voters in Utah's 2nd District, like voters in the rest of the country are sick of government spending money that it does not have.  They are tired of their "fair share" of the national debt soaring faster (and higher) than the most recently launched Space Shuttle.  It is well PAST time for Congress to get serious about their responsibility to the American people.  They are Constitutionally required to set the budget and every year the expenditures in that budget dwarf the nations income.  It's time for common sense in DC.  It is time to retire Jim Matheson and put a real fiscal conservative in his place.