Pelosi goes all "damn the torpedos" on us.

"Let's remove all doubt, we will have healthcare one way or another," Pelosi said during an event in San Francisco on Monday. "Certainly the dynamic would change depending on what happens in Massachusetts. Just the question about how we would proceed. But it doesn't mean we won't have a health care bill."

There is one way to pass the bill, even without 60 votes in the Senate, that's getting a lot of attention now. But Pelosi probably won't like it, and neither will a fair amount of her members.

The procedure in question would involve simply having the House vote on the bill that the Senate has already passed. That would mean avoiding yet another cloture vote in the Senate, one Democrats would be likely to lose if their caucus is down to 59 members after the special election in Massachusetts on Tuesday.

I don't think so.

This is shock and awe. This is Jesus coming down from the clouds with concourses of angels singing hallelujah. This is aliens landing in Washington saying "take me to your leader..."

Democrats in Congress were a little nervous before. Now they're looking for a change of underwear.

When a Republican loses office, he gets a radio or television show, goes back to the hardware store or whatever business he or she was involved in before. Democrats don't have lives outside of politics.

While it was noted that Bill Clinton told Congressional Democrats that failure to pass healthcare legislation would create suffering on election day, I don't recall anyone asking why Clinton would make that particular juxtaposition. Clearly he understands, as does the Obama administration and every other Democrat official in Washington, that every Democrat's primary concern is reelection.

Now we have an unambiguous demonstration that support for healthcare is a highway to hell.

Pelosi has more important things to worry about that slamming through the healthcare bill. She needs to worry about saving her job...