RNC chairman Michael Steele’s memo to Republicans cites a poll that shows public approval of how Obama is handling health-care reform at 41 percent; disapproval is at 41 percent. Steele argues: “Every Republican should stand up for health care reform that controls cost, preserves quality and provides the health care that Americans deserve. This means standing up against President Obama’s health care plan. The Obama administration is acting with extreme haste, hoping to push through their health care experiment as fast as they can. Make no mistake — their timeline is based on what works for them politically, not on what will result in the best health care policy for Americans. The reckless speed with which they are attempting to jam through this experiment is a grave threat to America’s health care, and America’s health.”

The stimulus ought to be a useful precedent for what happens when Congress passes legislation based on speed rather than effectiveness. The administration is left insisting that they knew all along that it wouldn’t work for the first couple months, but that we should be seeing a big burst of jobs, any day now . . .

On that note, I just saw a commercial from Conservatives for Patients Rights, calling out Virginia senators Jim Webb and Mark Warner . . .