His Majesty has purported to set an August 7, 2009 deadline for Congress to pass a health care reform bill (House dems unveiled their version of the bill yesterday). And dems are talking about the possibility, if necessary, of a strictly 60-40 party line vote on a health care reform bill in the Senate.
So what's the big rush? Actually, many of us know precisely what the rush is. His Majesty wants to ram-rod right down our throats every piece of massive ultra left-wing legislation that he possibly can before his poll numbers drop much further (low polls = high public pressure on dems in Congress not to vote for Majesty's bills). Cap-and-trade is another one that Majesty desperately wants to force through the Senate in the very near future. A second stimulus bill will probably be the next monster to creep out of the swamp.
And be sure to look for Majesty and the dems to choreograph as many distractions as they can over the next month to try to keep your attention off of these bills. You can expect, for example, more of the Pelosi/CIA soap opera, more talk about investigating Bush administration officials, and more efforts to keep fringe right-wingers like Palin and Slimebaugh at the top of the headlines. People, the world view of liberals is basically to think that you are an idiot. So don't be one -- recognize what's going on in Washington right now, and recognize the dangerous state of affairs that's been created as a result of one-party control of the entire federal government.
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health care reform is essential and prolonging the obamacare plan competing with private plans won't do anything but make this inevitable program more expensive. i don't think the plan is perfect but it's better than both the gop plan and the status quo (basically the same thing? ha), so I'm behind it.
ReplyDeleteI don't think cap and trade is a good idea during a recession. i'm also skeptical that it will even work. climate controls are also essential, but it's got to be done right. we have to tax the negative externality in a way that isn't susceptible to some fraudulent derivatives ponzi scheme action, and doing it during an expansion makes far more sense than now.
Why does this have to be done in 3 weeks? Why does cap and trade have to be passed immediately? The first 6 months of Obama's presidency have struck me as one giant ultra left-wing power grab and attempt to take full and morbid advantage of a terrible economy and initially high poll numbers. These are massive pieces of ultra liberal legislation. And these things would NEVER be passed into law in this great country absent a perfect storm of an awful recession and a charismatic leftist leader who was able to charm Americans into thinking he was something (a reasonable minded centrist) that he most certainly is not. And sorry, but I choose not to support a flawed piece of legislation simply because the status quo is fucked up and simply because the repubs have nothing better. I never chose the lesser of two evils. That's why I haven't voted for a repub or dem for president since 1992. And I sure as hell won't be doing so again any time soon.
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