Life In The Village

CNN's Gloria Borger:

The effort on Capitol Hill has been serious. I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but members of Congress are actually doing some real work. Some policy differences may never get resolved because they are too ideological; others are regional, and that's tough, too. But they're working at it, for hours on end, behind closed doors. No cameras, no grandstanding.

One of those working the hardest, Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, was derided at a town hall recently on the matter of his own health insurance. So here's the fellow who is spending every waking hour trying to get a bipartisan measure that can pass the Senate -- and be fair to Iowans -- and he goes home and gets an earful.

What a load of Iowa hog crap.

The only work Chuck Grassley has done is to assure the Senate Finance Committee wasn't going to pass a health care bill before recess, and to work to strip out anything remotely resembling real reform. His own party has cut his legs out from under him, and hell, let's be honest here, he's working hard to help kill the hell out of this legislation.

But able Villager Gloria Borger is there to defend Grassley's role in working to get health care for America. Sure he's working hard...for the status quo.

And so is Gloria.