Baltimore is the only city in that can make the claim they make Chicago politics look clean in comparison. A reminder…

“…Pelosi was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The youngest of six children, she was involved with politics from an early age. Her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland and a Mayor of Baltimore. Her brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971, when he declined to run for a second term.

Pelosi graduated from Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic all-girls high school in Baltimore, and from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in Washington, D.C. in 1962. Pelosi interned for Senator Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer….”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

Now,what are those obesity stats for the US, again?

As an example, the end of life consultation was going to be so expensive (per the CBO)they took it out of the bill. This doesn’t occur as frequently as preventative care.

We wanted insurance reform to make insurance more affordable, we were told that costs were unsustainable, now $8000 per person, going up $1800 over next 10 years. But what would you have thought if Obama said we will reform insurance, but you have to pay for it, for everyone else?

One other thing about O’Donnell–he is misquoted by Jane in her piece. She states: “He [O’Donnell] also says that while nobody fought harder for the public option than Nancy Pelosi, now she is “telling her troops they’re going to have to go forward without it. That moment is going to come.”

O’Donnell didn’t state that Pelosi had fought harder than anyone for the PO. He said that Pelosi will tell her caucus that she did. Those are two different things.

Obama knows, whether or not he admits it, that he won’t get a single GOP vote on legislation that, if done well and properly funded by a Democratically controlled Congress, will be the foundation stone for Democratic electoral success for a generation.

Obama also knows that his health care reform legislation – there’s no other name for it – will do the same for the GOP if it is done badly, if it is not funded or properly overseen by Congress, or if it is merely window dressing for a bankster-like diversion of tax dollars to unreformed private insurers. Or if quality reforms are delayed five to ten years to give privates that much more time to put their hands up our financial backsides while “accommodating” themselves to competition and new rules of the game.

To paraphrase the young John Kerry’s anti-Vietnam war address to Congress, does Obama want to be the one to tell the many thousands of the dead, the maimed and the bankrupt that their fates were necessary in order to accommodate the needs of a few hundred American CEO’s?

Point 2. Add your own. Good luck everybody this week.

P.S. Dogs don’t have minds – they have appetites.