Please tell me...

why I should trust any promise the President makes about health care. Last I checked, he hasn't brought Congress together like he said he would, hasn't shown much concern for bipartisanship (the bailout was basically a party-line vote and he takes every chance to vilify the GOP), and unemployment sits around 10% when he promised it wouldn't go above 8% if we passed the bailout. Toss in the fact that he's the President, not a member of Congress. How can he possibly say with any surety that the health reform bill will or won't do what he says it will? He has no voting power, no leverage, absolutely no way to make sure this bill does what he says it will! And on top of that, he's got a vested interest in getting this thing passed, which makes it all the more likely that he would write checks that this bill can't pass. So basically, if he hasn't lived up to his rhetoric up to now, and he has a significant interest in the passage of this bill, why should I believe the promises he's making?