Bobby Bright voted for the Health Care Bill before he voted against it
Just so everyone is clear.  Rep. Bobby Bright from the 2nd Congressional District of Alabama voted for the health care bill before he voted against it.  Rep. Bright’s first vote as a member of Congress was to elect Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House.  That vote was the first vote on health care reform and Rep. Bright voted for Rep. Pelosi which made the vote this weekend possible.  The fact that the Democrats had their 218 and didn’t need his vote (thus making his brave stand possible) doesn’t change that fact.

Calling Glenn Beck
Ed Lasky points to a disturbing appointment at State: John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross, who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard from publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert is not a neutral arbiter; he serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). What is the National Iranian American Council? The Council is widely considered the

Gimme That Old-Time Religion
Click here to view the embedded video. And you thought snake-handlers were crazy. (Warning, turn your speakers down at about 1:40 into this video.) Hat tip to  http://biggovernment.com/

On Representation
So, anything happen this weekend?  I guess not – it’s not like the US Congress ever conducts business on the weekends. Oh, I guess there was that vote (or pair of votes).  I’m sure Harry Reid is just thrilled. Honestly, I don’t think it’s time to get too worked up.  There’s no way this version of the bill passes the Senate, so we have a long way to go yet.  But there is one aspect of this worth commenting on. The lone Republican to vote with Nancy Pelosi was Joseph Cao, who represents the Louisiana district formerly represented by William Jefferson,

NYT reaches (again)
Erica Goode, writing in Saturday’s New York Times, takes the prize for most nonsensical analysis of the Ft. Hood shootings. “Every man has his breaking point,” said military doctors in World War II, believing that more than 90 days of continuous combat could turn any soldier into a psychiatric casualty. For Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who military officials said gunned down dozens of soldiers at