HURRY UP AND WAIT

All of a sudden, Nancy Pelosi and Chris Dodd want to slow down on a health care bill. After all the urgency, now they want to "take a breather", maybe for a month or six weeks. Wasn't this what the congressional Republicans were advocating all along? Funny how the senatorial loss in Massachusetts has made Democrats more cautious.

LEFT-WING VITRIOL

If anyone thinks that the right-wingers are the nasty personal-attack artists, take a look at MSNBC. Rachel Maddow is ripping President Obama a new one. It's not just Evan Bayh or Jim Webb who's being stabbed. It's wild!

THE PARTY OF "KNOW BETTER"

The Democrats have portrayed the Republicans as "The party of 'no'". They have blamed Republicans for the failure, so far, to pass a health care bill. This, even though they have the presidency, a majority in the House, and (until today) a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate. The Dems could have passed any bill they wanted. The problem is, they couldn't write a bill they wanted. They could only write bills nobody wants. And I mean nobody.
But even though the American people don't want the House or Senate bills passed, the Democrats think they know better. They really think that when the full provisions of a health care bill kick in (three or four years from now), the American people will love them. Because everybody loves an entitlement. People love Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, unemployment insurance, etc., even though they were too stupid to understand them when they were first proposed. Of course. The Dems think they know better what is best for the nation than the nation itself. They don't understand why anyone would decline health care as a "right", as Senator Harkin believes it is.

DORGAN, DODD, REID, AND BOXER

Yesterday, Dorgan hit the eject button, and today, Dodd reached for the doorknob. Dorgan is a doofus, and enough said about him. He knew he was through, and better to clear out than be embarrassed by the the rejection of the voters. Good riddance.
I took some pleasure in Dodd's announcement. For two reasons. He's a crook and a liar. Got two (count 'em - two) sweetheart mortgage deals from Countrywide, and then said with a straight face that he didn't know they had made it good to him. He's chair of the Senate Banking Committee, and he doesn't know what the current mortgage rates are? Then he made sure that AIG executives could retain the bonuses they received after the bail-out. The fact that AIG maxed out their contributions to his campaign had nothing to do with that, however.
Harry Reid will be the next one to drop out because he knows he can't get re-elected. How he ever got elected in the first place is a mystery to me, much less becoming Majority Leader. Together, he and Dodd have screwed this country up. (Don't get me started on Pelosi.) Dodd enabled the financial collapse, and Reid bought enough votes in the Senate to get the disastrous health care bill approved.
Barbara Boxer won't run again, either. At least she won't have to watch herself on YouTube anymore.