DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS ABANDONING OBAMA

Perhaps Democrats know something the rest of us don't about Barack
Obama's political fortunes. What else explains the increasing numbers
who are openly defying the president on two key election issues?

The notoriously thin-skinned Obama could not have been happy with
the news last week that, as the Hill newspaper put it, "an increasing
number of Democrats are taking potshots at President Obama's
health care law."

North Carolina's Brad Miller, who voted for the law, now laments
that "we would all have been better off" if Congress had dealt with
more pressing issues "and then came back to health care."

Barney Frank complained that the Democrats "paid a terrible price
for health care." And Virginia's outgoing Sen. Jim Webb said the law
would be Obama's "biggest downside" in the election and had cost
him "a lot of credibility as a leader."

Meanwhile, stalwart Massachusetts liberal Elizabeth Warren is now
calling to repeal a piece of ObamaCare — the 2.3% tax on medical
devices — because, she says, it "disproportionately impacts the
small companies with the narrowest financial margins."

Warren, by the way, is running for the Senate seat occupied by
Republican Scott Brown, whose victory in 2010 was a result of the
public's intense opposition to ObamaCare.

[There was more to the story, but I was unable
to get it into my computer clipboard. David]