Power Player of the Week?

Perhaps the hysterical reactions of so many on the Left to anything less than a total government takeover of health care is balanced by the furious opposition of conservatives who predict that the American experiment in limited government will effectively be repealed if health care passes.

Can it be that anything this massive and this massively controversial ought to fail? Can it be that the Constitution is functioning just as it was intended to function? The Senate’s former parliamentarian describes that body as a place where bad bills go to die. This is one instance, perhaps, where we can favor mercy killing.