Don't forget the cheap distraction and vote-buying. Rather than admit they want to rob Medicare and cheat the providers as part of “paying” for universalist health care “reform,” ObamaCo wants to do this: Rather than freeze Social Security payments this year, as the cost of living is steady, it wants to give seniors a small increase, anyway. A little bribe, a little vote-buying, a little distraction while more is taken from Medicare at the same time (whose effects don't even materialize until after the elections).

From what I've heard today, the eager “progressives,” who want the Dems to Get Going with legislation, are beside themselves with glee over Steele's recent remark (about stalling):

“Well, I’m the cow on the tracks, and you’re going to have to stop that train to get this cow off the tracks and move forward.”

(Train versus cow? No contest.)

(Stop the train? Hell, no, we won't.)

(Run his ass over.)

(There's a union engineer running the train. Don't expect it to stop.)

(We're going to have hamburger with our passed legislation.)

And yet…