Give Rick Scott this much: He may have reinvented himself shamelessly, but he’s done it in full public view.

Unlike his wife Linda, who runs a lobby shop in Washington, Tom Daschle is not a registered lobbyist.

Already challenged by Republicans, Barack Obama is now getting heat on the left from Howard Dean.

Is it wise for the head of a company that caters to left-leaning consumers to write an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, criticizing the Obama health care plan?

Caught between those lobbying for health care reform and the people shouting it down at town hall meetings, Dick Armey has chosen the demonstrators.

Betsy McCaughey is taking on President Barack Obama’s efforts to reform health care.

Dr. Richard Besser is getting as much air time on cable TV these days as Patrick Buchanan and Chris Matthews.

Dr. Robert K. Jarvik may play a rower on TV, but he’s not a rower.

And he may not even be the doctor he seems to be in his ubiquitous ads for Lipitor, a cholesterol drug from Pfizer.

Critics of the advertisements point out that Jarvik, the inventor of an artificial heart, is a medical school graduate but not a practicing physician.

Do a Google search for Dr. Larry Brilliant and you’ll get links to the worlds of medicine, technology, music and religion.

Prominent, too, is a link to Google Inc. itself, as Brilliant, 63, is now the executive director of Google.org, the Internet company’s philanthropic arm.

What a difference a year makes.

In 2006, Angela F. Braly was not on the list of the Wall Street Journal’s 50 Women to Watch. This year, she’s number one.

The president and CEO of health insurance giant WellPoint Inc., Braly finished higher than better-known business leaders.