More Superiority

'cause there's just too gosh darn much of it for an evenings and weekends blogger to keep up with....

***Betty McCollum (D-MN4) picked a recent debate with Republican challenger Teresa Collette to get in touch with her inner Porky Murray:

al Qaeda's no longer a threat, hmm?  Boy, I bet that's a HUGE load off of Minneapolosians' minds.

***In case you needed any further convincing of what a political, as well as policy, disaster ObamaCare is for the Democrats, behold this contrast which really is a confirmation.

One would think that a Donk running away from, or against, the forced nationalization of American health care wouldn't be able to escape it - and one would be correct.  But we all know that they all really do support it, deep down, but don't dare say so if they're to keep even imaginary flickers of re-election hope alive.

But that very desperately cynical campaign ploy is only serving, ironically, to keep O-Care's repeal on the front burner, maintain its political momentum, and boost its ultimate likelihood:

From the start, the project of repealing ObamaCare was going to be an uphill struggle just because it's very difficult to undo acts of Congress. Even if Republicans were to take over both chambers and pass a repeal bill, Obama would veto it. Even if Republicans add the presidency in 2012, they'd have to find a way to get sixty votes in the Senate to fully repeal the law. 

Though the public wasn't exactly rallying to support the law when Democrats were confidently defending it, by running away from it, Democrats virtually ensure that it will remain unpopular because the public will continue to be exposed more to the criticisms of the legislation than arguments in favor of it. As always, the possibility of GOP lawmakers becoming weak-kneed is the biggest obstacle to getting anything accomplished. But as long as ObamaCare remains unpopular and opposition is politically advantageous, it makes it more likely that Republicans will have the backbone to see through the repeal process. 

The flaw in Phil Klein's argument is obvious: the public was exposed to the criticisms of O-Care for almost a year, and with each messianic speech the bill and its floggers got more unpopular.  The public simply never bought the arguments because the Dems never campaigned on a radical government takeover as their health care platform plank.

The long-term "solution," if there is one, isn't to keep trying to force us to fall in love with ObamaCare like some sort of policy shotgun wedding, but to talk about anything and everything else, stall, and let the passage of time work its "magic".  Americans will never like O-Care, but eventually they'll become resigned to it as it the private health insurance market is inexorably ground to rubble and our other options are eliminated.

Avoiding it now is futile because it's too soon and the public's rage too fresh; wait long enough, though, and it'll become a fait accompli.

But there are Donks out there (in addition to the Obama/Pelosi/Reid unholy trinity) who are daft enough to think they know better.  Donks like Grand Admiral Bob Thugeridge (D-NC2):

Renee Ellmers dared him to throttle HER on the issue in their debate this week - a challenge to which his non-response was....let's call it "erectilely dysfunctional":

Y'see, there ARE no "positive arguments" for ObamaCare, because all the "positive arguments" (i.e. filthy lies and demogoguery) used to futiley try to sell it in the first place have already been conclusively discredited.  If there were any substantive arguments for a government takeover of health care, here would have been the time and place to offer them.  All Thugeridge had to offer in reply was "humina-humina-humina".

Looks like he'll have a lot of free time to start up his own teenage Fight Club next year, too. 

***Luella Madcowsky, victim of equality before the law:

Not only does the judge’s ruling not allow poll workers to hand out a list of names of write-in candidates, it also prevents poll workers from verbally providing the names.

“The actions of the Division are in a clear violation of an Alaska administrative regulation,” wrote Pfiffner. “The court hereby grants a temporary restraining order enjoining the Division for allowing election workers and polling place workers to post write-in candidate names, to provide a list of write-in candidate names to voters, or to provide verbally the names of write-in candidates to voters at any place within 200 feet of a polling place for the November 2010 general election.”

Electioneering at polling places is illegal.  Luella thinks she gets to do it anyway because she's the Crown Princess of The Last Frontier, THAT's why.  The state court manned up and told her, "The hell you do."

Of course, Luella will appeal this.  Will the ghost of King Frank intervene to give his crack baby the last word?

***Obvious headline: When did Texas invade, conquer, and annex Massachusetts?

Parenthetically, how appropriate is it that a fascist congresscreature from so fascist a hellhole as the Bay State is surnamed McGovern?  Does he have an Uncle George who is also THAT George?  And if the OTHER George draws a spontaenous public defense THIS tsunami-proof district, can't we repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment so that Dubya can run again in '12 and sweep The One out of all fifty states?  Maybe the L'il President would replace Rogaine on the ticket with McGovern.  Because that name just BELLOWS electoral success.

***For an incumbent Democrat who had, until today, all but caught his GOP challenger after trailing him by mid-single-digits for the entire general campaign, appointed Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) sure seems - oh, what's the right word - terrified of an interview that isn't more scripted than a pro wrestling match.  Did he think he was going on The View instead of Denver's biggest newstalk radio station?

***And, as a palate cleanser, the DSCC tributes to the sitting Veep via this exercise in Biden math:

J-Ger crunches the numbers.  Good thing, too, 'cause that sort of thing always makes my head hurt.