Noted Partisans Shockingly Decide to Be Partisan on Health Care
Well, you had to expect it would come to this eventually.
Given hardening Republican opposition to Congressional health care proposals, Democrats now say they see little chance of the minority’s cooperation in approving any overhaul, and are increasingly focused on drawing support for a final plan from within their own ranks.
Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans’ purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month’s Congressional recess, as well as remarks by leading Republicans that current proposals were flawed beyond repair.
Don’t blame the Republicans for this one, folks. The Democratic leadership has been pretty particular about noting how they’re in charge, how they have a supermajority in the Senate, and how they’re going to do what they’re going to do.
And suddenly it’s the Republicans who aren’t capable of defeating a single vote in either part of Congress who are the big meanyfaces?
Oh, please. Look at the Democratic leadership roster — Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer. Do you see anyone on that list with any sort of history of consensus-building or reaching across the aisle? Of course you don’t, because it’s not the Democratic party’s job to be bipartisan. That’s only for media-darling Republicans like John McCain, Lindsey Graham, or the Random Twins from Maine.
The truth is, the Democrats have two immense problems. First, they’ve pinned themselves between the Scylla of an electorate that doesn’t want big-government health care and the Charybdis of the progressive left who has been dreaming of being so very much in charge for a long time. Second, not every Congressional Democrat is a free-spending totalitarian in training, which means those unassailable majorities are very much assailable.
Republicans have been driving trucks through the holes in Obamacare (Democare? Totalitaricare?) and have been quietly offering proposals of their own, though they haven’t gotten any real traction in the media. The whole “Party of No” meme the Dems wanted to take root hasn’t and most Americans don’t see conservative opposition to be primarily politically-motivated.
Wise Democrats would be reading Pat Austin’s post this morning and heeding her advice.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Here Come the Health Care Doomsingers
- Government Health-Care: Card-Check in Disguise?
- Congress Votes to Keep Your Health Care Really Expensive
Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords
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