All Gall Is Divided Into Three Parts

An elected official speaks through the WashPoo:

When I reached Rep. Tom Perriello last week, he divided the crowds at the 17 town halls he had held to that point in his largely rural Virginia district into three groups: conservatives, for whom the health-care battle is "about big government, socialism and all that"; the left, for whom "it's about corporate accountability"; and a "middle" for whom "it's about health care costs" and the problems with their coverage.

As the representative is in dire need of a clue, let us provide him one: Congresscritter, if you see a conflict or difference between the "left" desire for corporate accountability & the "middle" who are worried about "costs" & "problems" w/ their coverage you are truly a fool. Shouldn't a politician be able to make use of an opportunity to unite people who have common causes & interests? Typist E. J. Dionne (Whose whole fucking point was that there aren't nearly as many raging, lunatic, crazy-person nut-jobs as his friends in the media might indicate.) doesn't notice that, even in Rep. Incompetent's rural Virginia district, two-thirds of those who showed up to bitch think there's a problem w/ health care, while one third is concerned that big gov't., socialism & all that will take away its freedom to die in the street like an animal. This Great Nation of Ours™ is in some big damn trouble when a manic depressive (w/ an amazing ability to overlook & ignore the obvious) in an over-priced tenement in Los Angeles is more perceptive than a member of congress & some clown w/ a media gig & telebision exposure. Fuck me.