Political MMQ

Voltaire said, "The perfect is the enemy of the good."

This is a tough quote for me. I like perfect. I seldom achieve it, but I like it. I desire it. I'm hard-headed, stubborn, and will fight for it.

However, what we need most as a nation at this moment is not a perfect health care bill. We really don't even need a particularly good one. What we need is a bill. A start. A beginning. A first step that if never taken will prevent the eventual passing of a better bill. A good bill. And maybe, one day, the near perfect bill that will provide true universal health care.

This bill is not the ending, but a beginning.

I celebrate today, not because we have won this fight, but because we have finally begun to fight.