Poof! Problem Solved.

On the 11pm local news last night – NBC News 4 (WRC) here in DC – U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) smilingly told a reporter that, now that Obamacare has passed, the health-care costs that until now troubled her district in Maryland "will go away."

Why is a person such as the Hon. Ms. Edwards portrayed as being anything other than a clown?  Why are her pronouncements about reality accorded more respect and treated as being more worthy than are pronouncements about string theory issued by a...