With health care reform in the ER on life support, many in the mainstream media have bashed the Republicans as obstructionists or dismissed them as irrelevant, suggesting that they would not vote for reform under any scenario. Actually, they just don’t like this scenario. And they have some interesting company including many liberal commentators, major unions and not to forget the vast majority of the American people. And frankly, why should they vote for this garbage? The Dems have systematically ignored their proposals, excluded them from conferences and have sent a clear message that they are neither wanted or needed (except for maybe Olympia Snowe). The very notion that social change of this magnitude could be undertaken with no bi-partisan support is deranged, yet the Dems seem bound and determined to recreate a Japanese kamikaze mission.
For the White House to put out the scare tactic that “We will never have this opportunity again”, is ludicrous. Maybe they’ll never get the opportunity because they will be voted out of office, but America is certainly up to trying this again only this time trying to do it based on rational thinking rather than nonsensical political considerations. They are working overtime to convince the gang that the price for enacting nothing, will be worse than the price for enacting a bad bill.
The problem for the Democrats is that their real motivation is not how they can truly reform the health care system in this country, but how they can take it over. The current proposals don’t even scratch the surface. They can’t wait to bury us under value added taxes. Why don’t we just join the European Union and save all the hassles? Hey, at least we’d get a stable currency!
