MICKEY KAUS: “The problem facing health care reform, as Dick Morris and others have been arguing for months, isn’t these tediously subtle legislative complications. They’re what we see on the surface. The problem is the crude, primal politics underneath them–the legislature’s’ ‘id.’ It’s the fear, among power-lusting Democratic Congresspersons, that if they vote for health care they won’t be Congresspersons much past November, 2010 (or that even if they win, they will no longer be in the majority party). They’re not worried about Cadillac plans. They’re worried about castration.”

Plus this: “‘[Y]ou should get behind his plan and benefit from the from the political cover he’ll work to give those who support him,’ Dickerson has Obama saying. You mean like the cover he gave Jon Corzine in New Jersey? …”