As has been pointed out on many occasions, the postions of the two parties have swapped their positions over the years... Prior to the Civil Rights Act the South was solid Democratic... Upon passage of the Civil Rights Act Lyndon Johnson acknowldged that in doing so the Democratic Party would be hurt in the South for decades to come... Well, it's pushing 5 decades now and Southern Man doesn't seem to be in any more of a mood to forgive than the day after the bill was signed into law...

The Southern Strtegy is still very much alive and well and perhaps gettin' ever weller...

No matter, here's the best thing about the Health Care Refore legislation... The Repubs can grandsatnd all they want... After the elction they can try to repeal it... They can hod heraings and investigations and guess what??? They will fail to repeal it... All they will do is reinforce in the minds of the voters that they are most of the "problem" in Washington...

I mean, yeah, they may have their little fun for 2 years but if the government doesn't start producing with them in power then it will be the Repubs who suffer the consequences in 2012...

Spending, no wasting, a year trying to undo something that is undoable will make them look very petty and once that image sticks then all the "Citizen's" money in the universe won't change the perception of the Repubs in 2012...

B~