Re: Health care — it ain’t done yet. We’re damn close, though. The media will try and distort the truth by saying it’s a tainted victory, that the Senate used reconciliation and the House threw out the whole deem-and-pass that “has never been used before,” (even though it’s been used more than 80 times since 2005).

Two major points where Maria’s hammer hit the nail:

1. When this passes, the Republicans will have no one to blame but themselves. Had they “governed from the middle” — as they tell Obama he should — and addressed some of these issues when they wielded power, they would have credibility when talking about reform. But their desire to shrink government put them behind, and now the only way to play catch-up is to take the air out of the ball.

2. Republicans really have trouble with the truth, don’t they? I mean, politicians of all stripes usually have their version of the truth, but a lot of the misinformation is about stuff that’s easily verifiable: Death panels. Birthers. WMD in Iraq. Waterboarding isn’t torture. Climate change.