Jarcher. 

1. "Legions?" The latest number is 38% approve ObamaCare - 56% disapprove.

1a. This is all about single payer. All the blue smoke and mirrors cannot obscure the ultimate goal of the left.

1b. "Hypocrites?" You pay for insurance for your entire working life and you are a hypocrite for trying to access the benefits? What about the $47 billion in fraud and waste paid out each year by Medicare?

2. It happens.

2a. Bill Buckley stood in the path of history yelling stop. Long before talk radio and Fox News, Buckley's National Review gave voice to conservatism in a world controlled by liberals. It was Bill against the liberal zeitgeist and Bill won.

3. The only maneuvering going on is that by the Iranians. Obama is a lamb being lead to the slaughter.

3b.  Even if you are right about missile defense, why not get something in return from Putin? Why just throw in the hand?

3c.  Clinton gave us two party talks and that got us a North Korean nuke. 

3d. Chris Matthews agrees with Dick Cheney.

3e. Useful idiots

4. Nah! Things done by FDR, Truman and Kennedy and LBJ make W look like a boy scout. You should try reading history. You might start with the episode prior to US entry in WW II in which FDR tried to provoke the Japanese into shooting first. Then you can move on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bay of Pigs and the Gulf of Tonkin. That should keep you busy through the holiday weekend.