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McCain

Wants to talk about process. Taking a pretty critical tone; talking about lack of transparency, “unsavory deal making,” asking rhetorical questions, just being his usual grumpy old man self.

Boy, he’s really making us regret electing Obama.

Obama tries to cut in, McCain steamrolls on, says Americans want us to go back to the beginning. He really reminds me of the debates. I don’t know who this is good for. He’s certainly throwing mud at Obama. Will it stick?

Obama: let’s get back to the issues.

Is Saturday Night Live on this weekend? ‘Cause if it’s a new episode the opening skit should be awesome.

Nancy Sibelius is talking to a roomful of people who probably are counting the minutes to lunch. OK, just an observation. So far this has been going on all morning. Lots of people have been talking. A total of two, I believe, were female. A total of one was not white. The nonmale nonwhite contingent were all Democrats. Just making an observation about how inclusive and diverse our government is these days.

Eric Cantor has a huge stack of paper in front of him, comes about up to his collar. Obama asks about it. I guess Eric wants to be able to look stuff up if he needs to.

“There is a reason why we all voted no.” (Yep, it’s called November).

He says it’s ‘cause the sec. of HHS will define benefits. What these guys are arguing is again, that government can’t work. I guess that’s an argument. Sure isn’t a constructive one, though.

Taking on oversight of insurance premium increases. Government regulation will force premiums to go up, says EC.

Obama ripping apart his talking points. Making the point that regulations are necessary to protect consumers. Explaining the concept of risk pools. Man, it’s sad that we’re at this point.

“We just can’t afford this.” Cantor.

We could afford two wars, massive tax cuts, and the Medicare drug benefit you voted for. Right.

Cantor is dogged, I’ll give him that.

Oh, hey another nonmale. Hello, Rep. Slaughter. Hey, she's pretty good. But she used the phrase "eating my lunch" and I could hear people shifting in their seats.