By Taylor Armerding
CNHI News Service

Obamacare is off the front burner. The president still insists it is going to happen, but he has really moved on.

Yet we in Massachusetts can't move on. We've fallen into Romneycare and we can't get up. We have our own universal health care -- a law that was supported by Scott Brown as a Republican state senator before he won Ted Kennedy's U. S. Senate seat by opposing Obamacare.

Taylor Armerding

By Taylor Armerding
CNHI News Service

Welcome to the Monday-morning quarterbacking forum. Where hindsight is always 20/20. Where everything looks clearer in the rear view mirror. Where success has many fathers and failure is an orphan. Where the blame game becomes a circular firing squad.

I'm just excited to be here.

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Taylor Armerding

By Taylor Armerding
CNHI News Service

I know elections are supposed to be all about the issues.

But I know, and you know, that they aren't. Elections are more about what candidates can do for you, or what they make you believe they can do for you. Which means they are about self-interest and personality.

And by that measure, neither Democrat Martha Coakley nor Republican Scott Brown are worthy to fill the U.S. Senate seat occupied, sometimes rather amply, by the late Ted Kennedy.

Taylor Armerding

By Taylor Armerding
CNHI News Service

All you women, stop worrying. Actually, you're fear mongering, and you all know how your beloved president doesn't like fear mongers. So stop it.

You'll be able to get your routine mammograms whenever you want after the feds take over health care. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said so, on National Public Radio and other news outlets.

By Taylor Armerding
CNHI News Service

The hunt is on once again for the man behind the tree.

It was the late U.S. Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana who reportedly explained why tax reform was so difficult with a pithy line illustrating that everybody is a special interest: "Don't tax me. Don't tax thee. Tax that man behind the tree."