Utterly Clueless
The first thought that crossed my mind when I read the opening paragraphs of Kevin Drum’s article in Mother Jones magazine was that he’s utterly clueless. Here’s what I’m basing that opinion off of:
But I’m going to repeat what I said over the weekend: the Feiler Faster thesis is largely true, and healthcare will be mostly forgotten within a few months. This bill affects a relatively small number of people; the people who are affected are almost all benefitting from it; and nothing much is going to happen until 2014 anyway. The tea partiers will stay mad, but they weren’t going to vote for Democrats in 2010 regardless. Moderates and independents, I think, will end up voting on other issues.
Health care will still be fresh in people’s minds a year from now because of its pocketbook impact but also because it’s a reminder of a bigger animating factor, specifically, that Democrats didn’t listen to We The People. This health care debate has highlighted several things, none of which help the Democrats.
First, the policy debate hurt Democrats deeply. People quickly grasped that the Democrats’ legislation was junk. People quickly understood that this was about a huge power grab; in fact, it was the biggest power grab in a generation. It was also a vehicle for increasing taxes, something that the Democrats are genetically predisposed to doing.
Secondly, the townhalls exposed the fact that Democrats didn’t know what was in their legislation. If this legislation is signed into law, insurance premiums will jump. Every time that a person opens their paycheck, they’ll remember the Democrats jamming their legislation down our throats. They’ll see their paychecks not stretch as far, which will fire the people up.
It’ll be like when a person opens up their 401(k). They’ll remember that things aren’t going well. They’ll want to blame someone and since the Democrats are the face of Washington, that’s who’ll get blamed. ALOT.
Rest assured that I’ll use this blog to remind people that the Democrats ignored them on the biggest issues of the day. I’ll use this blog to remind people that the Democrats put ideology ahead of ideas and politics ahead of people. I’ll use this blog to remind people that the Democrats’ first priority was to pass the Holy Grail of their political movement despite the fact that their Holy Grail has ruined the health care systems in countries across the world.
Mr. Drum, welcome to the revolution.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
December 27th, 2009 at 11:57 am
He is wrong; because private health insurance is going to change for the worse in 2010 based on anticipated regulations. People will be personally affected very soon (if not already) and it won’t be a dim memory.