Posted on 07/29/2009 6:25:54 PM PDT by myknowledge
With the health-care bill faltering in Congress, the ritual weeping has begun over the death, once again, of “bipartisanship.”
The belief that the answer to any problem lies with “the center” may be the greatest superstition in the ever-magical world of American politics.
Mostly it is journalists and pundits who propagate the notion that crazies on the left and right have neutered the problem-solving center, the moderates, the pragmatists.
In fact, the bipartisan center has been dying every year since Congress passed the Medicare and Medicaid bill of 1965. The people who back then were staffers to the politicians and agencies of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society graduated into the offices they now hold in Congress, the Beltway, many state capitals and academia, taking a second generation into their belief system. That included Barack Obama.
With President Obama’s health-care bill, the forces that across 40 years grew into unbridgeable opposition to each other could not be more plain to see. American politics has arrived at a crossroads.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Time to trot out the RINOS.
There are no Blue Dogs. Only Pink Dogs
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Another wonderful site with great information is the American Association of Physicians & Surgeons, whose opposition to socialized medicine has been ongoing for many years. Visit it here
From there, there are links to other sites and to upcoming events, including this one, pertaining to this weekend.
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