Because we learned yesterday (and will hear again from Obama tonight) that anyone who would like to delay the consideration of a health care reform bill is a partisan hack who only wishes to destroy the president, I thought I'd make a list of the destructive fear-mongers the president is up against. Charlie Rangel (D- N.Y.): "No one wants to tell the speaker (Nancy Pelosi) that she's moving too fast and they damn sure don't want to tell the president," Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., a key committee chairman, told a fellow lawmaker as the two walked into a closed-door meeting Tuesday. Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.): "We don't need to box ourselves in with any artificial deadline," Mr. Ross added. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.): "If we get consensus, we'll move on it" next week, Mr. Hoyer said. "If we don't get consensus, I don't think staying in session is necessarily necessary." Henry Waxman (D-Calif.): Waxman agreed with Ross that the entire committee - not just the Blue Dogs - "have great concern on the cost of the legislation." "That is a view that is not just theirs, but ours as well," Waxman said. Progressives, Blue Dogs, and everybody in between: "I want to make it very clear that there's progressives, Blue Dogs and everybody in between who have expressed concerns, and we're working on that." Quite a list. Why do they insist on "destroying his presidency?" Update: How I could I forget Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Democrat of Montana?: "The governors are concerned about unfunded mandates, another situation where the Federal government says you must do X and you must pay for it. Well if they want to reform health care, they should figure out what the rules are and how they are going to pay for it." Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is also raining on the parade: "I'm personally very concerned about the cost issue, particularly the $1 trillion figures being batted around,''