Push-ups with the Politicians.

I'm not pleased with the lack of reader comments here on The Fitness Nerd, so today I'm throwing politics into the mix. According to CBS, Obama's healthcare reform branches into getting people off couches and away from Cheetos.

Any health care reform plan that Obama signs is almost certain to call for nutrition counseling, obesity screenings and wellness programs at workplaces and community centers. He wants more time in the school day for physical fitness, more nutritious school lunches and more bike paths, walking paths and grocery stores in underserved areas.

The president is filling top posts at Health and Human Services with officials who, in their previous jobs, outlawed trans fats, banned public smoking or required restaurants to provide a calorie count with that slice of banana cream pie.

Even Congress is getting into the act, giving serious consideration to taxing sugary drinks and alcohol to help pay for the overhaul.

I thought everyone, with the exception of the soda industry, would get behind reform like this. Then the libertarians chirped in.

The whole situation has libertarians craving a basket of onion rings and a beer.

"If you care about the sorts of things I do, then you are going to be losing big-time for the next four to eight years," said David Harsanyi, a Denver Post columnist and author of the book "Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America Into a Nation of Children."

Don't get them wrong, critics such as Harsanyi say - they like broccoli and they lift barbells and they have no particular beef with a healthy president who was once described by his physician as having "no excess body fat." They just don't like it when government becomes the messenger and the enforcer.

As luck would have it, I'll be vacationing this weekend with Matt Welch, the Editor in Chief of the libertarian rag Reason magazine. I plan to grill him on the topic thoroughly.

If worse comes to worst, I'm fairly certain my healthy diet and serious exercise regime mean that I can take him in a fight. I'll report back on Monday.