If we wake up a few years from now with socialized medicine, we will have the Blue Dogs to thank for it.

There has been much handwringing recently about super PACs and their potential to doom the American political system. As the argument goes, super PACs mean that corporations or wealthy individuals can make unlimited contributions to groups that are thinly-veiled surrogates for candidates, so candidates can stay positive while the PACs function as attack dogs. Trouble is, this argument isn't true.

The Blue Dog deal only slightly slows down the train toward mandatory government health care; it does nothing to change the track.

The Democratic party has been purging itself of most of their moderates, to their own dismay.

This month, Thursdays have been very bad days for the Obama administration's attempt to pass health care bills concocted by House and Senate committee chairmen.

I have been in Washington, D.C. since 1969, longer than even Representative Cooper, and I have never seen it more dysfunctional. The problems, as Cooper notes, start with partisan divisions. In both the Senate and House, the center of gravity is nowhere near the center of the political spectrum.

The August deadline for a health care reform bill on President Obama's desk was never realistic.

Americans have complained for years that their government is broken. This time they're right.