It’s not often that former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential aspirant Howard Dean says something with which we agree, but he hit the bull’s-eye Tuesday when he said that “the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House. You have the vast majority of Americans who want the choices, they want real choices. They don’t have them in this bill. This is not health care reform and it’s not close to health care reform.” Dean’s comments on Vermont Public Radio came within hours of President Obama’s latest pep rally for Senate Democrats in their continuing quest to do what the latest CNN.com polls says nearly two of every three Americans oppose — put a federal bureaucrat between you and your doctor.

But wait, there was more from Dean, responding to President Obama’s claim on MSNBC that “you talk to every health care economist out there and they will tell you that whatever ideas are — whatever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce costs for families, businesses and government, those elements are in this bill.” Dean countered, according to Morning Bell editor Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation, saying that “There is no cost control of any substance … You’re going to be forced to buy health insurance from a company that is going to take on average of 27 percent of your money … and there is no choice about that. If you don’t buy that insurance, you are going to get a fine.”