holding steady.™

the house just passed health care.

that’s all i got. this shit was down to the wire, like that Xavier-Pitt game, or the Purdue-Texas A&M game.

this sunday has been just FULL of close (or, more appropriately, seemingly close) calls.

update: i like ed schultz. “the strategy of the republicans is going to be remembered for years to come on…it was Jim DeMint who said that “if we can break him”-to use that type of terminology-saying that “this is his Waterloo”….well there is going to be no Waterloo, there’s going to be health care reform in this country.”

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on ted kennedy

his ability to work across party lines was a major part of his legacy.
when we elected him, barack obama brought with him his relationship with kennedy, that of student and mentor. part of that included a desire to “bring everyone under one tent.”
you can appreciate obama’s willingness to cooperate (read: bend over) for republican votes, but at what cost? the republicans that ted kennedy worked with to get legislation passed were willing to compromise, even if at some cost. all compromise in this current fight comes given an opposition’s remarkably detached intentions to vote against the watered down bill no matter what concessions democrats make.
do we not owe this man? of course we do. it’s time to stop screwing around on health care.