Another healthcare vote gone from the House. Patrick Kennedy quits the quarrelsome House, and Nancy Pelosi has another expensive race to fight -- this time in Rhode Island, where a Republican candidate is well-financed and well-known.  The Republican retirement announcements, such as Lincoln Diaz-Bialart of Florida, appear less likely to create volatility.  It is a math of the two-party system that creates opportunity.  Mrs. Pelosi has a vast amount of territory to defend and a weak hand at the White House.  Spoke to Peter Brown, Quinnipiac Polling, on Thursday 11, and he reports that the number of respondents who think the Feds do the right thing almost all of the time is 2%.  Some of the time is only 16%.  The disapproval numbers of the Democrats and Republicans are also unhappy for Mrs. Pelosi, as the Democrats are now as unpopular as the GOP.  The only number that matters is the jobless number.  Between now an election day, there is minimal chance of the monthly number improving below 95, and it can easily climb again into the 10% and above number (the BLS survey is a gross guessing game of sixty thousand households, and it misses those who quit looking for work).  The picture doesn't get happier for Mrs. Pelosi now that Harry Reid is said to have drowned the bi-partisan jobs bill deal.  More quarrels is Snow City.  David Drucker, Roll Call, tells me Thursday 11 that the Democratic Senate Staff is preparing Plan B of a reconciliation concoction even as POTUS Obama waves the peace sign for his February 25 televised healthcare summit with the GOP.