As a young lad, I watched the University of Southern California go into their locker room, at halftime, trailing Notre Dame by the score of 24-0. At the end of the third quarter, the score was 35-42, USC.

The Obama administration is vacationing this week away from the progressive’s firestorm over the open disclosure of yielding to Republicans on Medical Security for Americans (the term health care reform has become too toxic and political to use any more). Luckily for them, when they return from holiday, they will have diluted the discussion of Medical Security for Americans, with a five-year old report on torture, and the announcement of an investigation into an investigation into a handful of cases of wrong-doing uncovered in these aged disclosures.

Meanwhile, The Right is cueing up dazzling bullshit for consumption in September which will include: if the President is circumcised; there is a book detailing how the government will go to work on killing Vets after putting down granny; and how Michael Steele and the RNC will protect seniors with Medicare (why is the Left afraid to say out loud Medicare, but not the Right?).

What adjustments are we on the Left making at halftime? Crickets.

I hope our leadership is using this intermission to do the following:

A. Change the nomenclature from Healthcare Reform to Medical Security for Americans and Public Option to HR 676.

B. Each time the Right changes the subject to the presidential penis and birth certificates, we should bring up Senator Russ Finegold’s request for a withdrawal timetable from Afghanistan.

C. Medical Security of Americans means every working American is still covered even it they lose their job or want to leave their job. Repeat this over, and over, and over, and over, and over…

Let’s get fired up Left: