[jjsheridan5]

I agree with everything you just said. What I take objection to is your statement that my “attitude” is somehow responsible for this health care takeover. My attitude is that we have a chance of pulling people like Cao over to our side on key votes (not 100% chance, but not 0% either), whereas with, say, a Maxine Waters, we have none (to say the least).

[Nonstatist]

Woops, I misread your second sentence and confused you with someone else on the thread, mea culpa! The positives do outweigh the negatives, even though he's only going to be with us for 2 years.