There’s more to be said about the Rand Paul’s insulting suggestion that skilled, unemployed folks should just suck it up and settle for whatever lower-paying job they can get. What I wrote before doesn’t fully expose his moral and intellectual poverty.

The Hill reports the Senate failed to get even 50 votes Wednesday on a procedural motion on the Medicare “Doc fix,” the first health care reform-related bill. On a vote of 47-53, the Senate knocked down Majority Leader Reid’s motion to proceed on the so-called “Doc fix,” a bill to eliminate automatic Medicare cuts for [...]