I haven’t followed the Massa story much, beyond the headlines – I didn’t know people were gay-bashing him. What, because of the sexual harassment or whatever charges? That needs to be stopped in its tracks, that’s for sure. It’s the harassment that’s the problem – as it is with people of any orientation that do that, not who he harassed.

I don’t read Markos much… I think the health bill is about as good as we are going to get, right now, for any number of reasons. It will, it seems, do a lot of good to some, especially people with pre-existing conditions and all that, or those in danger of losing their coverage, but won’t go nearly far enough in other areas. I’m okay with first steps, though. I think, possibly, it could have been a more comprehensive bill if all that time in the beginning hadn’t been wasted, with the committees and all that. But then again, more skittish senators may have dug in their heels and bawled that things were going too fast, or something.

Anyway, at this point I’m in the “pass the bill, then fix it” camp, ’cause that seems to be how big things like this wind up working out. Even if sometimes the “fixing” is ongoing for years.

What are you up to now? Blogging? Chat? Twitter?? I mostly just blog now, when I have time, but I miss everyone lots so I will have to find out where most of everyone hangs out.

And when you’re born in Florida, you get a backstage pass.

The somewhat less loathsome Charlie Crist is being trounced by the horrifying Marco Rubio, as the teabagging movement is thriving in Florida, for reasons I think are obvious.

Eric Massa seems to have some issues, but what’s really disconcerting to me, at least, is the glee which some “progressive” media personalities are taking in gay-bashing him. And now Markos Moulitsas is challenging Dennis Kucinich’s credibility on health care. Kucinich was advocating national health care when Kos was still a republican. I think this lends credibility to Massa’s statements about Emanuel, as Emanuel traditionally has attacked liberals and appeased DLC types like Lieberman and Ben Nelson. If the health care “reform” bill passes, it won’t offer much, if anything, in terms of real help for American citizens, but it will be a nice political trophy for the 2012 race. Which is the entire point, I think.

Sorry about sullying your nice blog with politics

Anyway, what have you been up to? Florida is, I’m glad to say, still providing much political entertainment, I see.

And yes, one can certainly think all manner of things about bad Emmanuel (and many do, with reason!) without being an anti-Semite

Oh, and hello! Happy to see that one of us is blogging productively, at least!