As It All Unravels
I was surfing around the web looking for some updates on the whole healthcare situation, and I was shocked to see the Daily KOS has an article up supporting my basic premise that President Obama's healthcare push is basically his political dying gasp. I quote here.
What is really bad is the generic ballot, which IS the national bellwether and it now gives Republicans a 43%-42% edge. http://www.npr.org/...
This would likely give Republicans control of the House and would allow them to cut significantly into the Democrats' Senate majority. We would be treated to Speaker Cantor and his plans to destroy Social Security and Medicare as well as his party's position of doing nothing on healthcare and favoring of a 23% national sales tax.
This is a likelyhood if these polls continue to show that Americans want divided government. It is time to jam through healthcare quickly and if the blue dogs object, Obama needs to step in and say to them "you dont have a choice here. You will support this bill or you will make sure that Americans dont have universal healthcare for another 20 years".
The logic in this article is faulty whenever it is not simply reading the writing on the wall. As per that writing, they can see that clearly. It is now or never on healthcare. I, of course, prefer the latter. But the implications of that point are stunning. President Obama has gone from Messiah to a neutered lap dog in six months. He has gone from a mandate to a desperate dying gasp for a shadow of the bill he supported. The article attempts to explain why, but that is where their logic falls apart.
First, the assumption is that the polls show that the American people "want divided Government". In reality, what the polls show is a much simpler thing. The American people don't want the radical left wing Government they are getting compliments of Obama and Pelosi. The promises of hope and change were great, but this is the people wishing they had asked what the change was really going to be. It is not a cry for divided Government, it is a plea for a sensible Government that takes responsibility for its own actions and leads in a positive manner, rather than relying on the divisive politics of race cards and class warfare. It is a withdrawal from huge government that hijacks private industry and threatens anyone who stands in its way.
More disturbing in this piece is the open and unabashed discussion of President Obama as a man who attempts to jam legislation down the throats of the American people by threats and coercion. Notice, it isn't time for him to either sell his bill or get one he can sell. No, it is time for him to once again use his position to attempt to bully those who don't agree with him.
The article ends with a statement and a question.
I hate that every time that we win the White House, we have to fall apart and lose everything else. Is this some sort of unwritten rule about Democrats?
I'm sure "UpstateDem' isn't going to stop by to read this, but I can answer the question for you. Yes, this is a rule about Democrats. The thing that surprises me is that you haven't figured it out yet. Did you assume that the American people enjoy having legislation "jammed through" before they have a chance to review it and express their concerns or desires to their elected leaders? Did you honestly think that we want to spend the rest of our lives paying for a healthcare plan that was simply implemented because it was either this or a twenty year wait? Did you honestly think they wanted their vote neutralized be a President who tells the leaders they elected that "they don't have a choice" in supporting his plan? Could you really possibly be that thick headed?
There is a rather simple explanation for why Democrats "fall apart and lose everything else" once they get the White House. It is because the Democrat party is a party of bad ideas and irresponsible governing. It's easy to rant about the "failed policies of the last eight years". It is much harder to propose policies that will work. Complicating the issue in this instance is the fact that your party not only put a man into office who had no experience leading anything, but you put him in there during a tougher than average time. This man had never run so much as a lemonade stand, and you gave him the Country. He had never proposed any great legislative success, yet you relied on him to solve the "worst economy since the Great Depression". Your problem is that you got exactly what you wanted. Now if you don't mind, we have a lot of work to do before we fulfill your prediction and begin to clean up the mess you guys made.
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