Did anyone else see the irony in Senator Chris Dodd's statement at his press conference about his prostate cancer.

Dodd, as you know, is leading the Senate charge for health care reform. He announced that because it was early stage that made it very curable. Dodd added he was lucky that Congress has such good health care. After consulting with several well-known doctors, he decided on surgery and then went on to tell us his schedule.

The irony comes when 1) Dodd choose to boast about having the type of rich-benefit plan that Congress is talking about taxing for everyone else; and 2) that under most of the plans (not Congress') being considered, experts would determine "best practices" for treatment; "careful watching" and not surgery for an older man such as Dodd -- he's 65 -- is the frequently preferred treatment.

Being so tone-deaf would get you fired in the public relations business. It will be interesting if it helps make him a loser in the next Senatorial election.