Glowing profile, growing dysfunction

If Rahm was right, guess who was wrong? Yep, the president. Oops!

But the president wasn’t the only one who was wrong.

Nancy Pelosi was wrong not to dump Charlie Rangel before he removed himself
from his chairmanship of Ways and Means. That is not my opinion. That is the
opinion of about 100 Democrats who would have broken ranks and voted to strip Rangel
of his chairmanship. Wonder how the CBC would’ve reacted to that one. Probably
not very nicely.

The media think Jim Bunning was wrong to hold up the unemployment benefits bill
over a quaint idea that the Congress would actually pay for more spending. Hey,
but wait a minute! Didn’t Democrats just pass legislation a couple of weeks ago
promising that they were going to pay for any new spending?

Is Bunning really in the wrong here? Sure, he may be crazy as a loon, but even
crazy people get it right sometimes, don’t they? How hard would it be for the
Democrats, who promised only 21 days ago in actual legal language that they
were going to pay for all new spending, to find $10 billion to pay for this bill?
Pretty hard, apparently.

The Democrats are starting to remind me of the guy who says he is going to take
you out for dinner, then makes you pay when he “forgets” his wallet. Except
this time, they forgot to tell the American people they were actually lying about
being fiscally responsible.

Now, keep in mind, the Democrats are getting ready to pass a healthcare bill —
a healthcare bill that is about as popular as athlete’s foot — by using a
procedure that practically guarantees no Republicans will ever vote for it, not
even that guy who took Bill Jefferson’s seat. From a political standpoint, I
think that is wrong.

The language used by all of the pundits (including me) is that the Democrats
are trying to jam this down the throats of the American people.

This actually reminds me of the clever Republican strategy to impeach a president
who enjoyed popularity ratings in the upper 60s. Except with impeachment,
nobody really got hurt. With this healthcare bill, many people are going to
face either higher taxes or fewer Medicare benefits, or worse healthcare.

I wouldn’t want to be one of those Democrats whom Speaker Pelosi said would
have to be sacrificed so that President Obama gets something done on healthcare.
They probably think this whole thing is wrong.

Obama must be wondering why his chief of staff is getting all the good press,
while he is getting all the blame. Good question.

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