Ken Blackwell: Power Player of the Week?

"Now, it seems, Moulitsas is back and the Daily Kos is mad. But not mad at George W. Bush. And not at Americans in Iraq. Markos Moulitsas is mad at the Democratic Party. He wants the latest version of Harry Reid’s health care bill to be voted down. He even taunts Sen. Reid, saying he was a great Minority leader.

"What has Moulitsas and the Daily Kos crowd so angry is the dropping of the so-called public option from the Senate health care bill while retaining the individual mandate. This, say the Kossacks, is like requiring people to buy tickets for Major League Baseball games but not letting them choose the Yankees. Instead, they will be forced to watch Kansas City Royals’ games.

"It’s certainly interesting to see the Left and Lefter crowd going through their gyrations. With only 40 Members, the Senate Republican caucus cannot really stop any bill that the Democratic majority truly wants to pass. It was supposedly cynical Bismarck who said if you like sausages and like the law, you should never see either one being made.

"Watching U.S. Senators verbally skewering each other is surely not as horrific as watching Americans’ bodies swinging from a bridge in Fallujah. We cannot affect to feel nothing for their plight. The fate of millions of Americans—born and unborn, liberal, moderate, and conservative--does truly hang on these deliberations."