Forget August, Pelosi And Company should be worried about September.

Forget August, Pelosi And Company should be worried about September.

As Congress begins its month-long August Recess (the House broke on July 31 and the Senate is due to leave town August 7) politicians may be evading Washington, D.C.’s sweltering summer heat, but for some the political temperature has just begun to rise.

It was not long ago that a newly-elected President Obama—joined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a liberal Congress of seeming juggernaut status—was feeling his oats and talking up an ambitious big government agenda that before summer’s end would see, among other things, a hostile government takeover of America’s health care...