A prediction:  When all is said and done, our current wannabe aristocracy will either enroll or else the law will be stricken.  Else that civil war Tom Harkin is predicting (quick, somebody alert Brian Kiteley!) will most assuredly take place. Let them eat cake?  Yeah.  That worked out real well for the French aristocrats.

— with the latter vote being but a ruse and a slap in the face of House conservatives, as they themselves have already noted. Time to go: Lamar Alexander, TN Kelly Ayotte, NH John Barasso, WY Roy Blunt, MO John Boozman, AR Richard Burr, NC Saxby Chambliss, GA (Retiring) Jeff Chiesa, NJ Dan Coats, IN Tom Coburn, OK Thad Cochran, MS Susan Collins, ME Bob Corker, TN John Cornyn, TX

“Cruz to House Conservatives: Oppose Boehner”: On a Thursday conference call, a group of House conservatives consulted with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas about how to respond to the leadership’s fiscal strategy. Sources who were on the call say Cruz strongly advised them to oppose it, and hours later, Speaker John Boehner’s plan fizzled. It’s the latest example of Cruz leading the House’s right flank. The private call came together

Watching C-Span, and listening to these men and women chortle and joke and handshake and back pat — all as they consign us to an era of diminished liberty and lower standards of health care that they’ve exempted themselves from — is enough to make me sick. I despise this broken government. I despise that the citizens and the states have no effective representation. I despise those voters who are

The permanent ruling class and its guardians know how to protect their own, so don’t be fooled by no votes on cloture by fence sitters once they realize that the requisite votes to defeat a no vote are safely accounted for — mostly from those who don’t have to worry about immediate re-election challenges. This is how DC operates, and its scumcaked players believe we can be fooled by their