Here is what Dean is doing, from a political perspective.
He knows that the Reid bill is a huge step forward toward a single payer system and complete nationalization of health care.
The Reid bill essentially transforms health insurance providers into instrumentalities of the government.
Dean knows that the government intrusion into and control over the market will mean that after regulation takes effect the essential business model of private companies providing health insurance on a for-profit basis will become unfeasible.
Dean knows the Rats now have the 60 votes in the Senate, and that Pelosi will get behind Obama and Reid on this.
So Dean is positioning himself for his OWN political future. He knows he can safely do this now that the Rats appear to be able to pass a bill.
Dean’s base is in the far left. He will now sit on the sidelines and wait for the inevitable “failure,” because of this government control, of the “private market” to provide “affordable” insurance for “working families.”
Dean will become champion of the single-payer solution that will “solve” the problem of the “failure” of private insurance companies caused by the Obama-Reid-Pelosi bill.
He is now simply positioning himself for that role.
Its a no win situation for them...and its beautiful to watch.
In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate,” the reporter who conducted the interview tells me.
Dean said the removal of the Medicare buy-in made the bill not worth supporting
The radical socialist left is raising a ruckus....but Reid & especially the commie pig 0bozo will do ANYTHING necessary (bribes, threats, warnings, breaking legs, etc) to get this monstrosity passed. The demoRATs know full well that all they have to do is to some version of anything passed, and let subsequent amendments take care of the full socialist gubmint takeover afterwards, including the public option & removing any ban on abortion.
Even if Dean doesn’t want to kill it, the Daily Kooks do and are exploding. A sample post that will do your heart good:
“Right now there is discussion that Obama is talking about a budget deficit commission where reductions to SS and Medicare will be on the table! Let’s see, what else can Obama do to decimate the middle class?!! What a disaster he’s turning out to be!”
Howard Dean, lunatic left-winger Democrat gets it. POTUS Obama wants a healthcare bill passed, no matter what is in it. Obama has done nothing but sit on the sidelines as the bill formed and moved through the Senate and the House. Fact is, Obama does not have a clue as to what is in the bill!!! Dean, however, is smart enough to realize that POTUS Obama is a failure as POTUS across the board and...if Dean and other Democrats side with him, Obama will take them down with him as he flushes down the obscurity toilet drain. Howard Dean, nutcase that he is, clearly sees the handwriting on the wall. “Drop Obama like you would drop a bad habit!!!”
Broken clock/twice a day.
just like Roland Burris, it’s personal
(if you were a Democrat who got screwed by Obama, wouldn’t you pick this moment above all others to pile on? If I am right Gov. Patterson will be opposing this bill next)
Howard has the right idea for the wrong reason.
The Dems see how public support for the bill is in the dumps, but they don’t want to piss off the radical Left and their SEIU buddies. It could be that Dean is looking for a face-saving way to let the bill die.
Dean: “Kill The Bill!”??
But... but... doesn’t he know this is an HISTORIC bill, like everything must be with this administration? /total sarcasm
Dean: “Trust me. I’m a DOCTOR”.
He wants to start over so they can use the nuclear option and not need 60 for a public option.
Their house is crumbling.
Dr. Dean is a little petty man and this is his way of getting even with 0bama for not getting an appointment.
The current bill with all its lunatic mandates is a monstrosity that will destroy the middle class.
I’d sooner have single-payer (with its tax increases and its ruination of our health care system) than this.
Check out the latest on the health care reform debate from Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., and Sen. John Barrasso, M.D., the Senate’s only two doctors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfr1SLC2sUM