“ALL THE SOARING CADENCES in the world, all the self-referencing, and all the whining and blame-gaming sadly cannot put the shattered Humpty-dumpty view of a once comfortable world back together again.”

UNHEALTHY ARROGANCE: Thomas Sowell on ObamaCare.

“What is ‘historic’ [about ObamaCare] is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want.... [T]his is not about the public's health. It is about Obama's ego and his chance to impose his will and leave a legacy.”

If it passes, it will be a bitter legacy.

THE SYSTEM WORKED, except for that part when it failed.

Which is why Americans cannot afford to be complacent.

FROM JUDICIAL WATCH: Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009.

From the entry on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but applicable to them all: “At the heart of the corruption problem in Washington is a sense of entitlement. Politicians believe laws and rules (even the U.S. Constitution) apply to the rest of us but not to them.”

The “ten most wanted” in alphabetical order:

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)/Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) - a “two-fer”
President Barack Obama (D-US)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven - a “many-fer”
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)

Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) would be on my list, but I suppose mere venality isn’t sufficient to make the top ten.

Read the complete “indictment” here.