IN THE ARENA: "Village idiots: The left is attacking health care reform as a sellout--and helping right-wing populists in the process," by Joe Klein, Time, 11 January 2010.

The subheader says it all: we all know we need something better, but better to sabotage any good-faith effort in that direction, so we can continue complaining and decrying the lack of political leadership.

McCain is being particularly courageous in this regard--quite the maverick!

Me? I'll take a sloppy compromise here and continued future efforts to smooth it out over yet another do-nothing session of Congress--the true legacy of Boomer politicians.

But, then again, I like that half a loaf.