Lede of the Day

George Kennedy's new column in the Missourian:

Anti-health care mood reflection of Republican ignorance

We know that God must love idiots because he made so many of them. What’s less clear is why they seem to congregate in our state Capitol.

If you’ve doubted that we’re being governed largely by the less gifted, I call your attention to events of the past few days. Most, but not all, of the idiocy was touched off by the passage Sunday night in Washington of a law that will extend health insurance coverage to 30 million of our fellow citizens, limit the abuses of insurance companies and trim the federal deficit by billions of dollars over the next decade. It’s not perfect, but our country is a giant step closer to catching up with the rest of the developed world.

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, who fortunately has no real power, immediately announced that he is joining the lawsuit filed by 14 state attorneys general – all but one a Republican – challenging the federal government’s power to require everyone to have health insurance...

Ouch.