Look, I basically agree with you. This health care thingey does not go far enough — and the barrels of lies about government-offered (not government run) health insurance stagger the mind. But it now has to get past Graham and Lieberman in the senate. Who knows.

However, this issue is major. It’s major for people, even if 50% of what’s needed gets passed, and it’s major for his admin. He has to get it through. And he has to eat, kiss his kids, bunk his wife, sleep, talk to finance guys, read intel reports, visit places, and think.

If he’s concentrating on domestic issues instead of foreign right now, I’m willing to hold certain views of mine in suspension.

The Israeli Lobby has far more than enough Congressmen in its pocket to cut him off at the knees anytime it chooses. However, if they do so uncompromisingly and leave him with nothing to lose, I bet he would fight with a vengeance.

He is deluding himself if he thinks he is getting brownie points for only disagreeing with the Israeli Lobby some of the time. His audacity at making an issue of the colonies, even only briefly followed by abject surrender, will be punished to the extent practicable to solidify precedent. If there is a viable challenger, perhaps HRC again, I expect that they will try to gut him at the end of his term when he wouldn’t have that much time left to counter-attack.