Bad enough their affairs and their religious frat-house hijinks continue to make headlines, now some Senate GOPs are talking about inside-strategy, talk Arizona’s Jon Kyl calls “unfortunate.” What’s unfortunate, Senator? That your colleagues are making health care defeat a political game, or that they are talking out loud about it?

Today Sarah Palin said goodbye to her gig as Gov GILF. The multi-tasking former media star slung salmon burgers with her right hand and greeted with well wishers with her left at the annual Alaska’s Governor’s picnic. Before she practiced for a great future as a fry cook, Palin gave a two minute farewell speech described as rambling:

Our occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continue and so do the lies. For all the talk of bringing democracy and security, Iraqis and Afghans are not fooled.

Gabrielle Giffords, a Blue Dog Democrat, wrote an editorial in the Arizona Daily Star, about the need for health care reform that includes a strong public option that lowers everybody’s costs and competes with private insurers. Here’s an excerpt from her editorial about the public option:

Recently, Randall Terry made a statement breathtaking for its irresponsibility. He said that if the new health insurance reform bill included coverage for abortion that “others” might resort to violence.

In the spring and summer of 2001, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld busied himself putting together a detailed briefing for Congressional leaders and national security officials that would outline where he saw threats in the post Cold War world. In many respects, he was on the money, focusing his presentation on terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, cyberwarfare, and rogue nations. The plan was to alarm Congress enough to give Rumsfeld the political backing he needed to undertake a massive overhaul of how the Pentagon did business, and to drag the American military out of its Cold War mindset and into the realm of complex 21st century threats.

If you need to know where we are, it is not 1930, despite what the establishment thinks, but the mid-1920′s. That decade of surges and downturns, last minute deals, and the desperate attempts to hold on to a world order that is slipping through the fingers of those who had inherited it.

The United States used to have antitrust laws to break up the bigs before they got too big. But during the Bush administration, Bigness was Better. AIG, Goldman-Sachs, JP Morgan Chase had to be bailed out with billions of taxpayer dollars. But there’s bigness elsewhere, too.

It seems like everytime I get on the Internets or turn on the teevee, some pundit or blogger’s telling me how badly Obama and the Democrats are doing with health care reform and how the concerns of “moderate” Republicans should be heeded, because People Want A Bi-Partisan Solution.

While it’s true that Obama’s numbers have dipped under the weight of non-stop assaults from the right-wing echo chamber, bought-and-paid-for Blue Dogs like Mike Ross and Big Health propaganda — no one really cares what Jim DeMint or John Boehner has to say about health care.

Blue Dogs stand in the way of healthcare reform on the principle that rich people shouldn’t have to pay taxes. That’s so Reagan of them. If you won’t tax, then what will you cut? Or should people just suffer in silence so your PAC will swell with money?