Dems like Arafat on health care

When Yasser Arafat was alive, he was famous for telling Westerners he wanted peace in English, while telling his own people in Arabic to kill the Jews. Democrats are using the same tactic with the public option on health care. While insisting that if you like your current insurance you will be able to keep it, at the same time Barney Frank says:

I think if we get a good public option, it could lead to single payer and that's the best way to reach single payer. Saying you'll do nothing until you reach single payer is a sure way never to get it.

Silent Majority

Like a previous president in the late 60s and early 70s, the current president wants to govern on the strength of a silent majority, although with a slight variance. He wants the majority that opposes or questions his policies to stay silent.

Community organizing for me but not for thee.

random thoughts

Democrats have filibuster-proof majorities in both houses of congress and the presidency. Why seek some Republican concurrence to pass legislation that at least a substantial majority (if not a majority) of the American electorate find at least questionable if not downright repulsive? Most likely for political cover when things get ugly.

Power corrupts, and the corrupt inevitably are removed from office. Give either party control of the White House and both houses of Congress, and it's just a matter of time before they overreach, everything turns to poo and voters turn to the other side.

Will Democrats be able to find enough human shields to deflect criticism and hang onto a shred of political power? Quite likely, it's the American way.