A bittersweet victory

Health care reform passes the House, but at what cost?

Friday Cat

Self-flagellation

I have no problem with the media's resurgent Republican meme. If Republicans want to believe it, great. The reality coming out of Tuesday, on a national level, was that the Dems picked up a seat. While the 2010 mid-terms may not be great for the Dems, it won't be due to a resurgent Republican party. It will be due to a depressed Democratic base. To remedy this the Dems better step-up their game and pass stuff. Important stuff. If not, the resurgent Republican meme will become reality. And resurgent Republicans will have nothing to do with making it so.

The Democrats can only beat themselves at this point. Something I fear they are good at.

Election lesson

If there's one lesson for the GOP from last night's election result it's to run moderate. Christie and McDonnell both ran away from the crazy and the crazy was rejected outright NY-23. Will they heed this lesson? Not while Rush and Sarah speak for the party.

Harry Reid forces me out of blogtirement

Not that I am really retired, just busy.

Harry Reid to his Senate foes:

While the two health care reform plans that are serving as the main building blocks for the merged bill have been publicly available for quite some time, I would note that the Republican leadership’s health care plan remains a secret, unless perhaps it does not exist.

Needless to say, I fully understand if your plan is still under development, and would not presume to suggest that you publicly share draft legislative text for even an individual element of your plan, let alone an entire bill, before it is finalized.

However, as soon as a comprehensive Republican alternative is complete, I hope you will be willing to immediately make it public. I am sure you agree that the American people deserve the opportunity to fully review both parties’ health careform plans before we begin this important debate.

Looks like someone's been taking Grayson pills.

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