While Everybody Debates the Merits of the HCR Bill

which passed the House yesterday and the stupidity of Dennis Kucinich to vote with the Republicans against it (but of course his voting against it was a matter of "principle" instead of the truth of it being craven opportunism), there is virtually no chance of this passing the Senate.

This is why Obama should never have wasted his time on something as futile as this issue. Jobs are so much more important, the economy is so much more important, but he wasted months and months of political capital on this crap.

Until we can get big money out of elections, there is no chance whatsoever of there ever being meaningful health care reform.

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