Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, said he was unaware of any House Republican inclined to support the Democrats’ proposed legislation.
Asked how many Senate Republicans could sign on to developing Democratic plans, Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, author of a Republican alternative, said: “I think right now, none. Zero.”
So, all the talk of bipartisanshit and compromise between Democrats and Republicans is bushwa; there are no Republican votes to be had, and if there were, it would be a bill so bad that not even the administration could stomach it.
So, great news, then! Fuck
the Republicans, and pass the health care package with 51 votes! Why, then, the continuous talk of "political feasibility" and "compromise"? Where is the real compromise, since no compromise is to be had -- or was ever desireable -- between Democrats and Republicans?
I suggest that the compromise is between the needs of the American people for health care and the needs of the insurance companies for profit. That is the "compromise" that the FKDP is brokering -- aided and abetted by our tribunes of the people in the "progressive" blogosphere, as they attempt to slam the door forever on single payer. Well done, all.
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Boehner's just signaling that the GOP still
hasn't wrung everything they want out of Obama and the Dems, that's all.
Look for Obama - via his House and Senate surrogates - to give some more; for reasons that totally escape me because I do not have an advanced degree in psychology, Obama seems incapable of drawing a line and commiting to it. Or else he's so bored by the whole thing, he's willing to do whatever is needed to make it all end.
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I suggest that the compromise is between the needs of the American people for health care and the needs of the insurance companies for profit.
i'd argue, since most healthcare-related and health insurance revenues rose last year, while most financials and other portions of the insurance industry tanked, that the fkdp is brokering our lives and health to prop up the one corner of the wider financial industry that hasn't yet collapsed.
after all, the health reforms are only supposed to start bringing down actual costs [thus lowering the health 'care' industry's income] several years from now, instead of right away. hr 676 would start cutting costs [and thus revenue] on day one.
Even better framing!
And again, it's rent-seeking behavior from both the insurance companies and the banksters (assuming them to be two separate entities).
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am under the impression one of those damn Executive Orders
could fix this too -- if it read "the effective enrollment age for Medicare is birth."
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Hideous Discipline
The GOP has hideous discipline, and I'm not sure why the Dems don't ever seem to take this into consideration, as in, totally cutting them out of the decision making process when the GOP makes it known that they are going to be nothing more than obstructionists. It's clear, then, that they simply use them as a foil for what they themselves actually believe.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...