Yes, he’s the baby’s daddy.

Here’s the statement…

“I am Quinn’s father. I will do everything in my power to provide her with the love and support she deserves. I have been able to spend time with her during the past year and trust that future efforts to show her the love and affection she deserves can be done privately and in peace.

It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me. I have been providing financial support for Quinn and have reached an agreement with her mother to continue providing support in the future.

To all those I have disappointed and hurt these words will never be enough, but I am truly sorry.”

I hope she understands too.

Actually, I hope Edwards leaves politics entirely and once Quinn is old enough to realize what her father did, John will be such a different person then the guy who cheated on his dying wife that Quinn won’t even care.

Here’s the question: Did you hear about Obama’s huge new banking regulations?

(Photo: MSNBC)

And I agree. Because even though Kennedy championed this health care legislation, Massachusetts didn’t elect a Dem this time around. That’s how democracy works.

From The Hill…

“In many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform but also on the openness and integrity of our government process,” Webb said in a statement. “To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated.”

The statement from the centrist Webb is a warning shot to Democratic leaders who are now forced to confront how to move forward with health reform efforts and other top priorities in the wake of Brown’s victory. Republicans now control 41 votes in the Senate, meaning they will have enough votes to sustain a filibuster if they all stick together.

The issue is critically important to healthcare, as well. Some lawmakers had talked about rushing to finish their health reform efforts before Brown could be seated, which could take as long as 10 to 15 days under Massachusetts law.

However, the other part of democracy is that Brown won by 52% to 47%.

So if a simple majority is good enough for Massachusetts, it’s good enough for health care legislation.

Yes, going that route will be painful. But that’s where we’re at now.

Can we ever trust John Edwards again?

My answer? Ummm…no.

Well, at least with anything political. I’d trust him to borrow a garden hose, but that’s about it.

Because if even one tenth of what’s in the new book ‘Game Change’ is true about Edwards (and his wife) it would be enough. The book paints Edwards as a reckless opportunist, an ego monster, a guy who’s so blinded by the need for power that he would do nearly anything to get it.

For instance, after it was well established inside the Edwards camp that he was having an affair, it didn’t stop him. Not for a moment. In fact, he became even more brazen. So much so that he proposed the following deal to Obama after Iowa…

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We’re told that if these firms don’t give big bonuses, they can’t attract the top talent. Well, then let the top talent go work in another country, create a bunch of pretend wealth and ruin their economies.

From Smartmoney:

A trio of Harvard Law School professors have tallied the cash these management teams collected for their performance during the boom years that preceded — caused, really – the bust. The numbers make failure look lucrative. [...]

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I usually don’t get into the politics of personal destruction because, to me, what’s between two people and their relationship is between those two people.

However…

The war room within a war room dismissed or discredited much of the gossip floating around, but not all of it. The stories about one woman were more concrete, and after some discreet fact-finding, the group concluded that they were true: that BIll was indeed having an affair — and not a frivolous one-night stand but a sustained romantic relationship. …. For months, thereafter, the war room within a war room braced for the explosion, which her aides knew could come at any moment.

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