So I wasn't going to blog tonight, but I had to tell someone this.

Here I am, about 10:30 at night and I am watching the Senate Finance Committee hearing on Sen. Baucus' healthcare bill. About 10 minutes ago John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced an amendment to force all members of Congress to enroll in the Medicaid program in their home states.

His reasoning: "the program is broken. If we all had to enroll in it, I guarantee it would get fixed."

Baucus responded by saying: "It's getting to be on 10:30 now. Getting a little late. Does anyone have any debate, any comment?"

Unnamed speaker: "Mr. Chairman, I feel that we do our worst work when it gets to be this late."

Baucus: "That was my point."

A subsequent roll call vote obviously failed.

The point here is that if you think Congressmen are grownups, you are way wrong. This amendment won't help Cornyn back in Texas. He is safe anyway. He was just being annoying.

Let me add a couple of links:

Just a quick thing from the New Jersey governors race. If you look more into it, you'll find that one of the negative ads very subtly attacks his weight.

You wonder if one day 50 years from now, people will be saying that a president should channel is inner Barack Obama.

In Washington, this is called the "revolving door" between the Capitol and K Street. Full disclosure: my office is considered a K Street office.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized today. It is widely speculated that she will be the next justice to retire.

You Seattle people will know all about a city under siege from protest.

Shocker, they are protesting at Berkeley. Never heard that before.

Warning: gruesome. Disgusting way a U.S. census bureau field worker died (suicide has not be ruled out) in Kentucky.

Hate to end it like that, but it's hard to even change the subject. Go watch the end of the USC-Ole Miss game. Could be good.

Night.