Posted on 10/30/2009 8:48:40 AM PDT by kingattax
If you're an elected Democrat anywhere to the right of Barney Frank, and trying to defend a competitive seat next November, you've got to be starting to sweat.
You wake up in the morning and just like every other morning as far as the eye can see the only thing in the news is the president's health-care reform. It's starting to look like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are leading the Donner Party, the snowbound emigrants who bogged down in the Sierra Nevada winter in the 1840s and resorted to cannibalism to survive.
The betting is that with raw political muscle and procedural magic, the Congressional Democrats will pass something, call it reform and hand Barack Obama a "victory." Maybe, but I think what we are seeing with this massive legislation is that the Democrats in Washington have a bigger problem: Their party is looking so yesterday.
In a world defined by nearly 100,000 iPhone apps, a world of seemingly limitless, self-defined choice, the Democrats are pushing the biggest, fattest, one-size-fits all legislation since 1965. And they brag this will complete the dream Franklin D. Roosevelt had in 1939.
The culture still believes the U.S. has a hipster for president. But the Obama health-care bill, and maybe this whole administration, is starting to look totally out of sync with the new zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.
Everything about the health-care exercise is looking very old hat, starting with the old guys working on it. Max Baucus, Patrick Leahy, Pete Stark-all were elected to Congress in the 1970s, and live on as the immortals in Washington's Forever Land. But it's more than the fact that Congress looks old. The health-care bill is big, complex, incomprehensible and coercive-all the things people hate nowadays.
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How about unconstitutional?
The Blue Dog Democrats will be replaced by the Independents and the right.
We really need to get a game plan for defeating the entrenched politicians who think they can defy what their constituents have told them.
Sander Levin is in a highly union district in Macomb County but the district has a lot of “Reagan Democrats” so with a proper strategy anything could be possible.
There are many more acroos the country just like him that need to go.
Agree with the authors direction that healthcare is anti-hipster; but one problem, all the ivy league lead hipsters voted for this clown rodeo. Trying to remember the election and I don’t remember healthcare as a core idea that rallied the masses.
What is most astounding is the tin ear the Demo leadership has on display. There is a lot of anger and continuing lack of public support for this HealthCare albatross, yet they are chugging right ahead. It just does not make any sense, how do the expect to sell a trillion $$ expenditure in the midst of the worst recession in 25 years?
Are they completely tone deaf?
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Unfortunately the G OLD Party isn’t taking proper advantage.
Someone should step into the vacuum. We are too scattered...Palin, DeMint, Limbaugh, Levin, etc... are singing the same tune but there’s no real plan.
I think that they have banked there futures on making "irreversable" changes to America such as taking over our healthcare, carbon tax, permanent redistribution of wealth, etc. Perhaps they are willing to be political martyrs if they can just ram this stuff through before the elections. If they can get just 51% of Americans permanently on the dole, and therefore permanently voting Democratic, they may think they will be safe.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Oh, but if you tried to use that argument on a rank and file leftist, they’d deny that you were being limited on your choices.
I gave a lib the “chapter and verse” on HR3200 concerning the eventual removal of private insurance as an option,
and she basically called me a liar (and of course, would not go look at it).
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