Here at TalkingSides.com we're taking a break from the rough and tumble world of American politics to remember one of the more genteel arts. So without further ado, we offer these snippets of lyrical verse:

There was an old lady named Nancy
Who rose to a job very fancy
But she pushed left too hard
And now we regard
Her future in DC as chancy.

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If there were any doubts that we are under one-party rule, the Democrats just made it perfectly clear by deciding that Obamacare will be pushed over the final legislative hurdle without a formal House-Senate conference committee. Instead, according to Democratic aides, the final compromise talks will be a three-way negotiation involving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) and the White House. (source) Three individuals all of one party and one far left ideological mind making the final decisions on a compromise between the Senate and House versions of so-called health care reform.

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When President Obama and the Democrats in Congress pushed through their $787 billion stimulus package early last year it was at least remotely possible they really believed it would stimulate the economy and create jobs. But soon after it was rammed through the legislative process the promises of creating jobs became claims of saving them and the 8% unemployment rate the bill was supposed to prevent skyrocketed to over 10%. Now those same Democrats want to squander even more taxpayer money on a phony job-creating bill.

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Believe it or not, there are some very good things about last night's House passage of HR3962 also known as The Affordable Health Care For America Act. Even though the bill contains nothing more than the tax and spend, big government, corruption inducing, special interest serving, bureaucratic liberal foolishness that the American people have time and again rejected; its passage by a razor-thin 220-218 margin establishes that:

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More proof that the Obamacare approach to health care is the wrong way to go: According to an Associated Press expose it is not the profit margins of the insurance companies that are driving health care costs to unsustainable levels. According to the AP, "health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That's anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones." (source)

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