Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, had a little political advice last week for President Obama and the Democrats: Don't pass the president's health care legislation because you would risk losing in the midterm elections. Obama laughed about it afterward. "I generally wouldn't take advice about what's good for Democrats" from McConnell, he told an audience in Pennsylvania. But he conceded that "that's what members of Congress are hearing right now on the cable shows and in sort of the gossip columns in Washington." He went on to argue that the issue should be what's right, not the politics.
