The House leadership met last night and decided not to go with the Senate bill. That leaves three options: reconciliation, end-run around the filibuster or give up entirely.I suspect that the option chosen will be Door Number 3. The Senate Democrats are too spineless for anything else.
Let's be clear on this: Health care reform never was a matter of the content of the bills. The opposition to health care reform, from day one, was purely political. It didn't matter whether the bill was excellent or a piece of shit, the Republicans were going to oppose it tooth-and-nail because it largely benefited working Americans and did not benefit the powerful insurance companies. Well, that's their right as the party of the rich and powerful. If they can con enough Americans into buying into their line of phony concern for the average guy, that's life.
I blame the Democrats, particularly Harry Reid, for this one. They had 59.5 votes in the Senate (the 0.5 vote being that of Joe "Old Unreliable" Lieberman [Weasel-CT]) and they have proven that they can only muster excuses. They have the largest majority in the Senate in decades and they cannot get shit done. If they want to try running in the Fall elections on the premise of "ooohh, we are in the majority, but we can't get bills passed, so vote for us", then the Democrats will have their asses handed to them. And they will have it coming to them. (UPDATE: Concur Ref A.)
As for now, if you want a 1941 analogy, given the GOP's proven disdain for the rule of law as well as their love of torture and the Democrats' abject spinelessness, the choice is between living under German rule or in Vichy France.
We just better get used to it because this is just ramping up. The media whore have just had a meal of fresh dumb fuck dim meat and their belly isn't close to full.
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Whenever I get too depressed, this guy: http://pleasecutthecrap.com/ cheers me up. He makes good arguments for optimism.
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