Healthcare reform gives voters indigestion ‘cause legislators won’t divulge their goals. One side touts new regulations to hide a squeeze on medical profits, while the other warns changes threaten patient care when they just distress campaign contributors. We suspect the final legislation will have fanfare in the name, pork sausage inside.

Signs, contorted faces, and shrieks at the 9/12 march on Washington had assembly-line sameness, and more than a slight resemblance to Fox News’ tea-bagging events. Talk radio intellectuals and lovers of liberal parody were inspired, or entertained — a two-fer we needed after eight years of wasteful war and wanton destruction of the economy. Since [...]

The right wing opposes everything the president suggests. Details don’t matter. His ideas must fail so he will. He won’t, but bipartisanship did. Many liberals see Obama as too conservative, conciliatory, accepting of bad Bush policies. Republican extremists ignore these clues and call Barack a fascist socialist. Whatever their motivation, conviction, obtuseness, or racism, the [...]

If Obama abandons the public option because experts say it can’t pass the senate, he deserves to lose liberal support. Who needs a leader who believes what politicians say they are going to do?