While the conservo pundits are performing their corpse dances over our Olympic chances these are the essentials:

Kerry is putting an energy bill through that includes nuclear energy

Waxman Markey cap and trade is making the rounds

Health care is under serious debate

Every company in the US is going through 2010 budgeting cycles, and still can’t decide because the storms of the Health Care Bill and Energy Bills make the future uncertain for the bean counters

Lindsay Graham is talking Hard Sanction up to and possibly including strikes on Iran

And Conservative blogs and pundits are overly focused and outraged over a non-essential Olympics bid that nobody will remember in a year.

What insanity