Can You Spell “Dysfunction?”
The Fortnightly Rant for February 12, 2010, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 254, No. 10, retroactively posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011. For a little over a year now, Democrats have had control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and, nominally, the Senate; Republicans, on the other hand, have had control of the government. Democrats, eager to look useful before the next election, have been trying to pass health care reform. Opinion polls have shown that a clear majority of the American public supports health care reform, as long as it includes either an expansion of Medicare eligibility or a public option. …