NANCY'S PLACE – AT 8:14 A.M. ET:  What is it about these Democrats?  Didn't any of them learn in student government?  From The Politico:

For a few hours Thursday night, the House of Representatives was in chaos.

Shortly after dinnertime, New York Democrat Charlie Rangel emerged from his private hideaway after news broke that he would be admonished by the House ethics committee.

Yet reporters in the Capitol rushed right past Rangel to ask House Democratic leaders about a critical intelligence bill that had just been pulled over a torture provision. The language had been inserted in defiance of leadership by House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.).

At the same time, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was slated to meet with leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus to try to salvage a routine, $15 billion jobs bill that turned into a piñata for progressives, the moderate Blue Dog Coalition and members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

Any of these three issues – a floundering jobs bill, a hastily scotched intelligence authorization or an ethics committee admonishment of the powerful chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee – would qualify as mid-level crises.

Together, these incidents illustrated a chamber in a mini-meltdown near week's end.

COMMENT:  Ignore this.  It's obviously far-right propaganda inserted by Sarah Palin and her children.  These are just the people you want to run your health care.  Why?  Because they fail, and they learn from their failures.  By the time they get to decide whether you live or die, they'll be wise and perfect. 

Nancy?  Charlie?  How can Washington and Jefferson compare to them? 

February 26,  2010