The big news is another Republican win in Mass. Whoopee. I'm sure it's a referendum on something, but I don't know what. Probably the two people who ran.
The Repugnicans are all fired up about stopping health care, claiming we now need to start the entire process over because one person changed in the Senate. No doubt they would like to get something else, because just killing everything doesn't show a lot of progress. If they want to keep us where we are, fine. Let's vote on that later this year and two years down the road. The problem is eventually you'll have to get something done, and we'll know exactly who to blame. Have fun.
I'm starting to believe the whole game is rigged, and all they really want is more of the same. That's a disaster in the making, but that train wreck has been coming at us for years now. I'm not sure we can run fast enough to even get out of the way.
On a happy note, I saw Clinton and kid Bush over the weekend, coming together to raise funds for Haiti. Impressive show of solidarity, and they said all the right things. And I'm sure that was especially hard for W. It's nice to know there's still room for compassion in American politics. Wish we could see more of it.
Do you really not get it? You just lost Ted Kennedy's seat. Red Ted the Swimmer. The 'Lion' of the Senate. The Kennedys have held that seat since people were driving Edsels and watching Howdy Doody on their black and white TV sets, and now an unknown Republican won and made it look easy, and you truly don't think it says anything at all about Obama or his health care 'reform'?
The democrat 'plan' does nothing at all to stop lawsuit abuse or the defensive medicine practiced because of it, creates different rules depending on what state you live in and what bribes and kickbacks your senate delegation was able to pocket, relies on a highly dubious claim that it will be 'deficit-neutral', exempts unions from extra taxes everyone else has to pay, etc etc, but the people who are against this monstrosity are repugnant and selfish, is that about it? Aren't you clever!
Posted by: Winston Smith | January 21, 2010 at 07:50 AM
Wasn't Mitt Romney governor of Mass?
I think people voted for Kennedy because he was an incumbent and an effective senator. But that doesn't suggest the seat will always be blue.
Did health care play a role? Maybe. But what bums me out is the scare tactics and the vitriol that is the Republican message -kill it or it will kill us. Why not work to make a better bill?
All I see from R's is defend the status quo and retreat to ideology, regardless of what's right or true. Check out this story of how it happens in Missouri.
http://missourinet.posterous.com/when-political-rhetoric-meets-political-reali
Posted by: JW | January 21, 2010 at 07:40 PM
How similar is the Massachusetts health-care plan, which went into effect a few years ago, to the Obama health-care plan?
Posted by: Bass | January 22, 2010 at 10:43 PM
I'm not sure, and it's a valid point. It's possibe people in Mass already consider their health care problems fixed.
Posted by: JW | January 28, 2010 at 12:40 PM