Brief Political Comment

Paraphrasing the immortal Captain Renault in Casablanca, I'm shocked--- shocked!-- to discover that Rep. Joe Wilson evidently lied in making his excuses for his blatantly false accusation against the president last week with regard to health coverage for illegal immigrants. It's frankly depressing to realize that someone demonstrating such an utter lack of class, brains or integrity has more say in how this debate moves forward than most of the rest of us combined. It also occurs to me that if he is the current face/voice of the opposition to health care reform, then I don't know how it can fail to pass. But that's based on a lingering faith in his Congressional colleagues to recognize the idiocy of his position, and that may be too much to hope for.