A song for the false queen

So now comes the news that Queen Nancy the last has abandoned 'deem and pass' for the health care debacle. I was thinking of what to say when a song popped up on the iPod that seems to pretty much sum it up. In a truly ironic twist, it is the Bob Dylan classic, "Like a Rolling Stone."

Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you ?
People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall"
You thought they were all kiddin' you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin' out
Now you don't talk so loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you're gonna have to get used to it
You said you'd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He's not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And say do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain't no good
You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all precious gifts
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone ?

I could not have put it better. The false queen should read these lyrics and heed the warning: Do not endlessly abandon and betray those that made you who you are. Eventually one runs out of 'friends' and ends up all alone looking around and wondering what happened.

Well, Nancy is on that cusp with her relentless and fairly mindless push to pass a bill that even her House Democrats dislike. "Hold your nose and vote," is no way to govern. Hurrying to pass something that is flawed rather than take the time to get it right inevitably leads to a flawed law and a bad program.

During the Clinton administration, a bad welfare reform bill passed and was signed with the promise of going back and fixing it. That only made it worse. President Reagan signed the 1986 tax act with the promise of fixing it. And the 1988 Technical Correction Act only made things more complex and convoluted.

I know that the HC bill is a snow ball rolling down hill at this point. I can only hope that come November. the false queen finds herself on her own, a complete unknown, no direction home. Like a failing stone.