Bloviate (v.) \ˈblō-vē-ˌāt\
to speak or write verbosely and windily
This is a Bloviator segment on Brief Wit. It’s reserved for those long-winds you just can’t keep to a low word count, knowing full well you’ve lost the reader halfway through. To see the previous edition, click here.
As I return from a bit of a respite (upon which I happen to have seen the effects of the Stimulus in action), I was not planning to write about health care (or is it insurance?) reform. Try as I might not to, I am drawn in. (An aside: by all means, indulge in the cartoons I have peppered throughout this piece.)
It would be summarily shocking if the current state of play is what Rahmbo and ‘Bam (God love New York Post nicknames) had in mind all along, as if there’s some War Room calendar in the West Wing where Monday, August 24th is marked, “Hit rock bottom. Begin backlash to the backlash.”