Gallup recently released a "State of the States" poll tracking religious identities in the different states. The two graphs I found most interesting:
Dori Monson, a local talk show host of whom I can't say I'm a huge fan, put together a pretty concise take-down of Obama's PR push on HC. He has video and quotes and the whole nine yards, but I liked this contradiction he found: "In fact, in 2003, Obama laid out his plan in a speech to the AFL-CIO: "Single payer health care plan. Universal health care plan. That's what I'd like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to talk back the Senate and we have to take back the country"...Obama in 2009: "I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter." And don't get me started on the USPS analogy.
But on the flip side, leave it to David Frum to point out some of the truly scary aspects of opponents of the current health care reform bill: "If Barack Obama really were a fascist, really were a Nazi, really did plan death panels to kill the old and infirm, really did contemplate overthrowing the American constitutional republic—if he were those things, somebody should shoot him. But he is not. He is an ambitious, liberal president who is spending too much money and emitting too much debt. His health-care ideas are too ambitious and his climate plans are too interventionist. The president can be met and bested on the field of reason—but only by people who are themselves reasonable."
And that's enough for now.
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