"CRAZY" – AT 5:01 P.M. ET:  Ah, I can hear Patsy Cline singing it now, right at Nancy Pelosi:

WASHINGTON — The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation today as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Barack Obama's chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers.

COMMENT:  Huh?  The only way it could threaten their political careers would be if their constituents are overwhelmingly against it.  So what Queen Nancy is saying is, "Who's more important, the American people or us, your leaders here in Washington?"  She certainly is blunt about it. 

I can understand risking your political career over a national-security issue, and members of Congress have done so.  But over a particular health-care plan?  When others are available?  When your own party has made a mess of it?

Nancy, of course, comes from a safe district in the People's Multicultural Republic of San Francisco, and Bar & Grill, so she has nothing to fear but smear itself.  Others are in greater jeopardy.

February 28, 2010