For all the rhetoric of how the Republicans were becoming a geographically exiled party, the Democrats essentially told every rep. not on the coasts or Boulder they are nothing but cannon fodder in their chess game of government and societal re-invention. I want to see a liberal, with a straight face, tell a conservative they are shoving their morals down their throat after this one. The public is against this deal 2-to-1 and they are passing it anyway. This is the largest bill ever passed along party lines.

I have a hard time believing the individual mandate gets through the Supreme Court, not with the Court in its current form. That probably isn’t enough to tank the whole deal, but we’ll see. If they can get 60, we can. In the words of a recent book, “If you beat them bad enough, they can’t cheat.”

Don’t think the public’s going to be buying the “it’s all Bush’s fault” line, when all this hits the fan, either. Unfortunately, it will be only when we’ve gone OVER the precipice that the “center left” shift will come to an end.

Now if you want to argue that feds can’t do what the states are doing already … Hmmm … well, best of luck in finding a judicial panel that will reinforce your arguments with case law.