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

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.

Those who oppose presidential power in Iraq but supported it in Kosovo are trying to have their cake and eat it too.

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.

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

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 role of government is to be the referee, but not to suit up and play the game by becoming more deeply involved in Wall Street.