The White House has just demanded "a simple up-or-down vote" on National Medi-Grab. That's like telling diehard Japanese soldiers at the end of WWII to either stick a sword in your belly or fall on a hand grenade. You've got a real choice there! The Democrats are being invited to commit suicide one way or another. But will they march off that cliff? I don't think so. Politicians are not in the habit of killing their careers for the grandiosity of Obama. I don't remember another president asking his party to commit suicide in one grand Gotterdammerung. Grand gestures are for opera. Politicians do love to preen and boast, but only when it's safe to do so. It's not safe anymore, not at all. The voters are watching, and taking down names. The Obama presidency is all theater and no results. Anywhere. By now the Congressional Dems understand that in their bones. Even if they did jump off that cliff, it wouldn't do any good. It's suicide as pure theater. So what we're seeing looks...(Read Full Post)