The Ugly Truth Regarding The "Health Care Reform" Bill
I'm not one to write 1,000 words when several would suffice, so let me just say it: If Health Care Reform doesn't pass, the Democrats in Congress won't get anything of significance done for the rest of this year.
For those wondering why, let me just say that I really don't believe the GOP when they claim to "helping" Democrats by "warning" them of the dangers of passing HCR. It's not like the GOP would suddenly back off and begin working with the Democrats if they dropped the whole thing. In actuality, it would be the opposite: Republicans running in 2010 would just scream and yell about how ineffective the Democrats are.
And that's just the elections. In the meantime, the Republicans in Congress will just continue to obstruct and delay Democrat-sponsored legislation and President Obama's nominations with impunity. Of course, they're likely to do this regardless of whether HCR passes, but in this instance it'll happen under the (media-promoted) guise of "GOP COMEBACK," putting the Democrats in a PR hole.
And one more thing (and this is probably more controversial than my first statement): those people out there who want to derail HRC because the bill isn't perfect, because it doesn't have the one, two of three pieces you think it needs to be authentic, it's partially your fault that the legislation is in its current form.
Why do I say this? Because many of you dropped the ball last year. There was no reason for us to go through the Month Of Hell, aka August 2009. I understand many liberals, Democrats and just plain Obama supporters were tired after the 2008 election and wanted a little reprieve. Nevertheless, the opposition never rests and it didn't take them long to combine the Wall-Street induced recession, rising unemployment, general ignorance about government and not-too-subtle racism with Obama's health care push, resulting in old white people screaming nonsensical things like "Keep the government away form my Medicare."
If I could ask Dennis Kucinich a question, it would be: "Where the hell were you when people were screaming at the top of their lungs about 'death panels' and 'raising taxes' and 'forcing abortions?'"
Point is, the people who decry this bill's imperfection where just as surprised by what happened as everyone else. What they don't seem to understand is that our options (excuse the pun) became limited the moment those Town Hall Meetings become the story.
UPDATE: fivethirtyeight sums up the legislation in two Wordle images.
UBER-UPDATE: Bart Stupak's abortion rhetoric is such bullshit .
For those wondering why, let me just say that I really don't believe the GOP when they claim to "helping" Democrats by "warning" them of the dangers of passing HCR. It's not like the GOP would suddenly back off and begin working with the Democrats if they dropped the whole thing. In actuality, it would be the opposite: Republicans running in 2010 would just scream and yell about how ineffective the Democrats are.
And that's just the elections. In the meantime, the Republicans in Congress will just continue to obstruct and delay Democrat-sponsored legislation and President Obama's nominations with impunity. Of course, they're likely to do this regardless of whether HCR passes, but in this instance it'll happen under the (media-promoted) guise of "GOP COMEBACK," putting the Democrats in a PR hole.
And one more thing (and this is probably more controversial than my first statement): those people out there who want to derail HRC because the bill isn't perfect, because it doesn't have the one, two of three pieces you think it needs to be authentic, it's partially your fault that the legislation is in its current form.
Why do I say this? Because many of you dropped the ball last year. There was no reason for us to go through the Month Of Hell, aka August 2009. I understand many liberals, Democrats and just plain Obama supporters were tired after the 2008 election and wanted a little reprieve. Nevertheless, the opposition never rests and it didn't take them long to combine the Wall-Street induced recession, rising unemployment, general ignorance about government and not-too-subtle racism with Obama's health care push, resulting in old white people screaming nonsensical things like "Keep the government away form my Medicare."
If I could ask Dennis Kucinich a question, it would be: "Where the hell were you when people were screaming at the top of their lungs about 'death panels' and 'raising taxes' and 'forcing abortions?'"
Point is, the people who decry this bill's imperfection where just as surprised by what happened as everyone else. What they don't seem to understand is that our options (excuse the pun) became limited the moment those Town Hall Meetings become the story.
UPDATE: fivethirtyeight sums up the legislation in two Wordle images.
UBER-UPDATE: Bart Stupak's abortion rhetoric is such bullshit .
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