By GLENN THRUSH & MARIN COGAN

Politico: Democratic Incumbents Call for Less Legislative Ambition

Moderate Democrats, coping with the electoral fallout of President Barack Obama’s grand and ground-down legislative ambitions, have a message for their leaders: Stop supersizing us.

If the first year of Obama’s term was dominated by the so-called Big Bang push for enormous, politically risky initiatives — the stimulus, cap and trade and health care — Year Two is fast shaping up to be year of small ball, retrenchment and backlash. Continue reading >>

Some Americans want a single-payer system. Others want free market to flourish. No matter which side you are on, the current debate over health care is becoming tiresome for us all. Even though the health care debate seems to have turned into a “WWF” style political battle, it doesn’t mean either side should roll over and play dead.

An encouraging development in the last few months is that formerly uninterested folks are taking an interest in the political process. As much as Nancy Pelosi would like to convince America that the majority of people who oppose her views are AstorTurf, or as Barny Frank so compassionately said to one of his constituents, “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table,” the polls paint a different picture. Continue reading »»