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TheHeretic -> RE: HealthCare Reform will it pass (9/2/2009 7:29:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Esinn
I am more interested in that than personal opinion.
Too bad. You get my opinion anyway. [;)]
If everything you have been reading indicated it was going to pass, Esi, I'll strongly encourage you to expand the horizons of where you get your information. This legislation is in serious trouble.
I have been running on a quiet assumption that this was going die between the House and Senate, if it got that far. It was badly sold, and, for all the attacks and denials, Sarah Palin's "death panels" assessment stuck.
After reading this article in the news today, I'm not quite so sure. President Obama is going to reaffirm his personal ownership of it in an address to the Nation, and both Houses of Congress next week. I don't see this as a good move. He could have survived the failure of Congress to pass the legislation, but he is placing his personal credibility into the pot when the Republicans have nothing to lose. Once he gives that speech, once he makes it about him, either health care passes, or Obama is a lame-duck inside his first year in office.
With such a "must win" situation, I don't see a good outcome.
Getting a bipartisan bill from where we are now is going to mean letting the insurance companies and malpractice lawyers write it. There are always enough completely corrupt people in Congress (both parties) to pass anything if they can be convinced the President will give them cover.
If the Democrats try to stay idealistically pure, and drive it through on superior numbers, it is lose-lose. A: The Dems "ram their ideas down all our throats" with a horrific backlash in the mid-terms, or, B: Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid discover they don't have the juice to convince the conservative and moderate Dems to join the communal suicide, and we have a lame-duck Congress to match our lame-duck President.
I don't think any of those outcomes are good for the country. That comes before my joy in skewering the Democrats.
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