The irony and inconsistency of a President who is trying to reform Health Care while sneaking smokes outside the Rose Garden (or somewhere) is just too sad to contemplate for a long period of time.  It's funny but it's sad.

If we just stopped subsidizing the Tobacco Industry (and I live in North Carolina) and took that money to subsidize Health Care we would need no new taxes and no new plan.  The very fact that we have a President who has not come clean on how many he smokes, where he smokes, or what he smokes is not only deceptive but sad.  Obama's smoking habit is indicative of the lack of integration his entire Presidency has showed thus far with almost everything he's attempted. 

Obama's tobacco habit has a kind of 'You can touch my left breast but not my right breast morality " to it.  The message he's really communicating is this:  Go ahead and keep your bad habits.  We'll take care of you down the road and your neighbors will pay for it.  The bad habits thing extends to the Unions (tomorrow's tobacco farmers), the Car Companies (the electric car is a kind of smokeless cigarette) and the strip malls that dot the countryside advertising cheap top end fashion.  Substitute Government Health Care for Ralph Lauren underwear and you will get the picture.

The point Barack is missing is that he is the epitome of things we should not subsidize.  In this country you can drink, smoke, do drugs, turn your body into a landfill for disease and we take pity on you in the end.  We say, (at least in the South), "Well, bless their heart. They've had it so rough.  Smoking 53 packs a day was their only relief from the Hell that was their life".  "And, they were an only child you know"

So, here's my plan for Barack and one that would almost guarantee our healthcare costs don't go up:

1. Come Clean on the Habit and get some Help.  Don't try. Do it.  You don't stop smoking by putting a cigarette in your mouth and working it around to your ear over time.  You just quit like you started.  Right Now.  If you won't, then guess what?  You pay a LOT more for your health insurance, private or government.  Here's a thought:  Barack should go smoke in front of his children if he thinks its OK to continue.

2.  Put a "Fried Foods Tax" on everything from KFC to Burger King.  In other words, you can eat that stuff but there's going to be a tax on it that pays for your bad health behavior down the road.  Here's a clue that what you are eating may have too much grease on it:  When the plate it's served to you on has a puddle of goo at the end of the meal that looks like the changing pit at Jiffy Lube.

The two trillion healthcare budget is used by 20% of our citizens and 80% of that use is due to behavior related healthconditions:  Overeating, drinking, smoking, and other chemical addictions.  For example:  the "Pill Weight Loss" industry in this country is larger than the Mexican Drug Cartels and is nothing more than Speed masquerading as nutrition.  Watching some of the obese folks go into a hospital is like watching the US leave Iraq...it just takes forever.

As a guy with brain cancer who never smoked in his life but watched a mother who did die of lung cancer, Barack's personal habit is not only deceptive but insulting.

Come on Barack, light up in front of CNN.  That will move your program along.