Triggers, Food Fights & Election 2010
The latest fuss in DC is whether there will be a public option or whether legislation will be a trigger to the public option or whether there won’t be a public option at all. This is only a fuss in DC because the American people have made up their minds. They don’t want it. PERIOD.
Let’s remember that the public option is just a step towards single-payer. Let’s remember that single-payer is the basis of Canadacare and the system that the Canadian Medical Association says is causing Canadacare to implode. Knowing these things, why would We The People sign off on a fatally flawed system? Furthermore, why would We The People sign off on a trigger to a fatally flawed system?
The bad news for President Obama is that the DLC-type Democrats vehemently disagree with the Nutroots Democrats on the issue. That’s before we start dealing with the divisions between President Obama and Speaker Pelosi or the division between Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer. The division between Pelosi and Hoyer highlights the differences between the Progressive Caucus and the Blue Dogs, which is yet another division that hasn’t gotten resolved.
Meanwhile, the American people are watching the various Democratic Party foodfights, coupled with the Democrats’ mixed messaging, and they’re wondering if there’s a leader or an adult in the room.
Who can blame them?
If the Democratic Congress symbolized a class in school and the American people represented a teacher, the American people would give the Democrats, including President Obama, a timeout until they learned how to listen and until they learned how to work well with others. Rather than using the old cliche that too many chefs spoil the broth, let’s say that too many liberal factions derails the legislation.
In this instance, though, derailing the Democrats’ health care legislation is just what the doctors ordered. It’s the best cure for the Democrats’ ‘cure’.
At the day’s end, the important question isn’t whether to trigger or not to trigger. That’s been decided. THE IMPORTANT QUESTION is whether We The People should keep the Democrats in the majority after the 2010 midterm election. Unless and until there’s common sense leadership in DC, we’ll forever have to worry that the Democrats will want another bite at the public option apple.
Personally, the answer to that question is definitely not. I suspect more and more people are reaching that conclusion, too.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 8th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Come on, Gary. The House version is an excellent one and should be enacted immediately. In Venezuela, where President for Life Chavez can laugh at the poor fool peasants all the way to the bank while bankrupting the country. He knows his days are numbered before the peasants and/or military overthrow him, so he’s getting everything out of the socialist system he can.
And if single payer (in any form - single payer, public option or co-op) does make it through it will be only a matter of time before we have our own president for life. When that happens, may he find the same revolution Mr. “Sulfur” Chavez will.