How effectively will the House health care bill cover children? Turns out, it depends on where they live.

WATERTOWN, NY — The walls of the small event hall were festooned with “Don’t Tread On Me” and “Liberty or Death” signs; supporters waved placards that read “Save Our Country, Vote Hoffman” and “THANK YOU: John Rich, Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck.”

“This is a state that Democrats said was going blue, or least purple,” said Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, on Virginia. “How do they explain it if they lose?”

“We’re not trying to supplant or replace RedState or Townhall,” John Solomon said. “We love those sites.”

“He’s a Republican gladiator, not a conservative,” said American Conservative Union chairman David Keene.

Global warming skeptics hope “SuperFreakonomics” will continue to shift attitudes toward their cause.

“This is not a tea party hangover,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the Susan B. Anthony list. “It is every piece of the conservative base–the Club for Growth, social conservatives, right to work, pro-lifers, everyone–coming together.”

Democrats are in the uncomfortable position of claiming that an overhaul of the way doctors are paid under Medicare is somehow not part of health care reform.

The candidates share a rationale: if any Democrats deserve to lose next year, it will be the powerful committee chairmen who are shepherding the party’s agenda through Congress.

Reid called the insurers’ anti-trust exemption “anticompetitive and damaging to the American economy.”