Fans of Friday Night Fights may be in for a treat on a Tuesday night -- if they happen to be residents of the Virginia's 8th congressional district.

Tomorrow evening at 7:00 PM in the auditorium of the South Lakes High School at 11400 South Lakes Drive in Reston, Virginia, Rep. James Moran will hold a town hall meeting to discuss "current efforts in Congress to reform our nation's health care system."

Joining Moran will be a special guest, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

That's right -- the two most short-fused and hot-tempered men in the national Democratic Party are going to be together in the same room, fielding questions from constituents on the most volatile subject matter since Dan Rostenkowski, at a Chicago venue called The Copernicus Center, 20 years ago "learned that the earth does not revolve around the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee."

I'm a conservative, so that title could work for any number of pieces I might want to write.

In this instance, I'm referring to an exchange on last night's edition of MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," which begins at about 9:27 into this clip featuring Matthews interviewing Rep. Bob Inglis and Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips:

Matthews: The conservatives talk reasonably when Democrats get in power, and say, "Well, we have an alternative that's more free market, it's less onerous, it's less, you know, big shot, big government stuff, and I accept all that. But when you guys are in power, you don't do anything on health care. And that's what happens, and that's why, for, God, almost a century of foot dragging on this. The Democrats get in power, whether it's Truman, whether it's Bill Clinton, or it's Hillary Clinton, or it's Barack Obama, they try something, it fails, because you guys are good at playing negative politics. You're really good at destroying Democrats' plans, chances to reform. But when you get in power, when you have George W. Bush in there, with both houses of Congress, or you've got Reagan in there, with complete ideological control, you don't do anything on health care."

Really?