Sep 17 2009
Single player health care
It is high time for the Democrats to realize that bipartisanship is dead. They could hand the Republicans a health care bill written entirely by the Republicans themselves and the Republicans would vote against it. Why? Because it was handed them by Democrats. These attempts by the Democrats to “bring the Republicans into the process” are nothing short of ridiculous. The Republicans do not want to be part of the process. Their leaders Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck have told them so. The sole purpose of the modern Republican party is opposition. Unless they are opposing whatever the Democrats (and most especially President Barack Obama) are proposing, they no longer have reason to draw breath.
David M. Herszenhorn hit the nail squarely on the head in yesterday’s New York Times…
Most Republicans have been deeply unhappy with the Democratic health care proposals so far, and Republicans on the Finance Committee were said to be bracing for two possibilities: a partisan proposal that they were going to oppose, or a bipartisan proposal that they were going to oppose.
Almost. He just needs to remove the word ‘most’ at the beginning of that paragraph and the words ‘on the Finance Committee’ from the middle. Then he needs to change to ‘unhappy’ to ‘opposed’ and… Well, here, let me rewrite it for him…
All Republicans are deeply opposed to the Democratic health care proposals and they are bracing for two possibilities: a partisan proposal that they are going to oppose or a bipartisan proposal that they are going to oppose.
There, that’s better.
The Democrats do not need the support of the Republicans to give Americans the health care reform that they so desperately need, and that is a good thing because they are not going to get it. Hopefully, the Democratic leadership (and President Obama) have by now come to that realization. It simply does not matter how many compromises they offer or on how many points they cave, the Democrats are not going to win one single Republican vote.
It is time for the Democrats to write the health care bill they want, pass it and have it signed into law by the duly elected President of the United States. They then need to move on and tend to other business. The Republicans have held the country back long enough. If our Republican friends want to act like petulant children, it is time to start treating like petulant children. Send them to their rooms while the adults take care of business.
