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.

CASH FOR CLOTURE

Mitch McConnell said on the senate floor that when the Health Care bill passes, it will change America. In reply, Harry Reid smiled and said, "That's why we did it".
Later, Reid replied to criticism that the cloture vote was purchased by ear-marks. He said that there were a number of things in the bill that a lot of senators put in for their own benefit, and said that if there were any senators who didn't get anything in it, it was their own fault. The cynicism is breath-taking, never mind the corruption.