The poll’s results come as no surprise. The so-called health “reform”, aka the Corporate Health Insurers and Pharmaceutical Profit Maintenance and Enhancement Act, is a joke, just as the “reforms” of the Medicare Prescription Benefit Plans were a joke. This should come as no surprise since the only voices Mr. Baucus and his Republican and Democratic friends heed are voices accompanied by money for their reelection campaigns. Yesterday’s vote was a disgrace. The whole health care debate has been a joke. Unfortunately, the failure of the Congress only puts more people in financial and physical peril. And the suggestion that we fine people who can’t afford to pay the exorbitant cost of private insurance strikes me as one of the most morally corrupt and politically bankrupt ideas in the long tradition of morally corrupt and bankrupt ideas proposed by the “people’s representatives”. The notion that Congress and the Senate represent anything but their own self-interest is itself a joke. Perhaps, the Congress should abandon the nation’s finest gold-standard, federally financed insurance plan and learn what hard-working Americans have to contend with in seeking and using health-care. The actions of both parties in this debacle deserve nothing but contempt. Unfortunately, we can expect they will be reelected.

#1, maybe not.  It’s hard to tell right now, but if the dropping poll numbers on the formerly wildly popular young President are any indication, this may be one of those years a’coming when an “i” in front of your name may spell trouble, regardless of the party preference.  And term limit legislation and bill to require Congress not to pass any law that doesn’t equally affect its members may be on the horizon.  I can’t remember a time when the government has had such a tin ear as it presently seems to have.  If things continue the same for the next year, an electoral revolution may occur, which may or may not be a good thing.  Inexperience has certainly not been very good in the White House, thus far.  So the same in Congress in 2010, may not be that good either.  But we’ll see.