Robert Reich asks today , why the anger? And answers : Because Republican Astroturfers have joined the same old right-wing broadcast demagogues that have been spewing hate and fear for years, to create a tempest.

Maybe . Or maybe the Astroturfers and the broadcast demagogues are exploiting a condition rather than causing it. All societies contain a quota of the deeply unhappy  waiting for the: Day of the Locusts. Now add Joe (usually)Lunchpail, in the millions, staring at the TV , waiting for foreclosure , deeply humiliated in his own eyes  at what he sees as his failure  to support his famiily, .

Sure they're responding to Rush and Steele. If McCain were in office they'd be responding to Josh and Adriana.  They want to hate somebody and are just waiting to be told whom that is.

The solution? To accept there is no solution. For the time being. Obama has to just keep on keeping on. And we need to cease blaming him because he can't make the sun rise in the west.

He may well be a one term president. All the more reason why he;s got to get  Health Care through .Not because  otherwise he will have "wasted a crisis". But because every year, month, week,day   until we have Health Care people in their thousands  will be suffering because of its absence.

AOBTW if that means John Yoo escapes his deeply deserved disbarment, and the Drug companies get a free-er than-it-should- be ride, so be it.Every sled needs ten huskies. And  a puppy that can be thrown to the wolves.