SURROUNDED BY RACISTS:

The Rage Is Not About Health Care (FRANK RICH, 3/28/10, NY Times)

The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.

Washington Post poll finds split on health-care law remains deep (Jon Cohen and Dan Balz, 3/28/10, Washington Post)

In the days since President Obama signed the farthest-reaching piece of social welfare legislation in four decades, overall public opinion has changed little, with continuing broad public skepticism about the effects of the new law and more than a quarter of Americans seeing neither side as making a good-faith effort to cooperate on the issue.

Overall, 46 percent of those polled said they support the changes in the new law; 50 percent oppose them. That is virtually identical to the pre-vote split on the proposals and similar to the divide that has existed since last summer, when the country became sharply polarized over the president's most ambitious domestic initiative.

The Wife saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read: "I think, therefore I'm liberal"

That person imagines themself to be tolerant, just like Mr. Rich.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 28, 2010 8:01 AM