Posted on 03/18/2010 5:43:22 PM PDT by Kaslin
If health care reform finally staggers across the finish line, it will be because President Obama and congressional Democrats recognized — at long last — the truth that has been staring them in the face for more than a year: They'll be better off politically if they just try their best to do the right thing.
No matter what the Democrats attempt or how they go about it, Republicans are going to complain, obstruct and attack. That's the inescapable lesson from this whole exercise, and it's hard to fathom why it took so long to sink in. The Democrats looked ridiculous, sitting around the campfire and singing "Kumbaya" while the opposition was out in the forest whittling spears and arrows.
As if to prove my point, some Republicans are already talking about trying to repeal the reform bill even though it hasn't yet been passed. This hardly seems in the spirit of bipartisanship — which the GOP, with cynical but skillful rhetoric, has elevated into some kind of saintly virtue.
You have to admire the GOP's chutzpah. George W. Bush governed like a steamroller as he enacted his radical initiatives — massive tax cuts, a huge shift in the balance between privacy and security, an unprecedented "big government" takeover of education policy, an expensive and unfunded Medicare prescription drug program.
But the moment the Republicans were out of power, they discovered a moral imperative for the majority party to do everything in a bipartisan fashion. Democrats, mindful of polls showing that party affiliation has dramatically weakened over the past generation, were all too happy to oblige.
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"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:58
He also described the solution:
"It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:388
"Whenever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson: Kentucky Resolutions, 1798.
"It [is] inconsistent with the principles of civil liberty, and contrary to the natural rights of the other members of the society, that any body of men therein should have authority to enlarge their own powers... without restraint." --Thomas Jefferson: Virginia Allowance Bill, 1778.
This guy is f'ing coo-coo.
Look for more of this kind of VOMIT spew if the bill passes! The bastards at the hill should be held accountable along with the mediaPUKES!!!
Shut up commie...your Kenyan brother is about to be sacked!
*Inhales deeply
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha XD
No one should take seriously anything that Eugene Robinson writes. He is one of the dumbest and most partisan pundits in Washington. Merely a statistic on the left.
No one should take seriously anything that Eugene Robinson writes. He is one of the dumbest and most partisan pundits in Washington. Merely a statistic on the left.
hooray.
Well, one can also say that if they push this POS through the Democrat party has committed suicide. It’s just going to take until November to see the final body count.
What’s courageous about cheating?
The “right thing”?
The Rats are trying to get any old football labeled Obamacare kicked through the goalposts. They’re long past giving a damn what’s actually IN it.
Once a week, Robinson takes time out from pondering his genitals to write this kind of crap for his DNC bosses.
Eugene is gonna see what a old fashoned ass kicking is this november. I suggested that he sink all of his investments in Savings Bonds to show real support to Barry the historical joke.
The author clearly has his head stuck up his @ss.
We think alike.
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