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Waiting for the miracle: health care “reform” — 15 Comments

  1. How grotesquely pitiful and narcissistic to contemplate the notion that government is responsible for providing health care for every citizen, ugh!!

  2. As Samuel Johnson noted, the knowledge that one is to be hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully. That is the situation for Democrats from moderate and conservative districts. A vote for this monstrosity of a bill will be their undoing. The Republicans have almost a year to dissect the bill for the most odious parts to hang about the neck of the Democrats who vote with Pelosi.

  3. I’ve a friend who’s hoping that the bill passes by only a vote or two to prolong the agony as it dies slowly during all the horse trading and amending in committee.

    Based on what I read at NRO, there are 177 Rs (all of them) and 24 Ds solidly against for a total of 211, leaving 224 Ds mostly for, with the possibility of further defections and abstentions.

    Fingers crossed.

  4. Many experts predict that the Senate will kill this turkey of a bill. If so, there will be some Democrats in the House who fell on their sword for nothing.

  5. Remember in 1995, when the Senate – we were told – considered itself the moderating force to prevent new and radical ideas from the House from moving too quickly? You don’t hear that anymore. I wonder why?

    Well, no I don’t wonder, actually.

    nyomythus – citizen would be a significant improvement on this bill, remember?

    I do understand that to progressives it does seem the most natural thing in the world for the government to provide health care. France has got a pony. Sweden has got a pony. All the kids in our neighborhood have a pony. Therefore there must be something wrong if I don’t have one. Not that I can think of any logical reason why I deserve one, but that’s not the point. The other kids have ponies.

  6. Mr. Frank,

    While I don’t disagree with you in principle, to call this bill a turkey seems like inappropriate humor. This is a monstrosity, and it bids fair to destroy us. No laughing matter, that.

    But I’m with you in your sentiment.

    Huxley,

    If this thing is passed through the House, the Dems in the Senate will find a way to use the dreaded “nuclear option,” which they castigated the Republicans for contemplating with respect to judicial nominations in time past, to pass it (or something near enough like it) through that body. These wizards will have succeeded in using our own Constitutional system against us. I know you like to think that the Constitution, and the system it has emplaced, protects us against any and all destructive revolutionaries. But I’m not so sanguine. We’re in a helluva mess. This is a coup d’etat, in relatively slow motion, for all to see. Tell me, how do you think we stop it?

    I see on C-SPAN that they’ve passed it.

    Oh Lord.

    Now what?

  7. We’re going to have to fight. It’s coming, nearly as surely as the sunrise tomorrow.

  8. Oh Lord. Waxman has just yielded to His Lordship, Rangel, he of the Sterling Character and Reputation. I’m sick. Really. These guys are gag-inducing.

    Sorry. I know neo’s blog isn’t particularly intended for such comments. But still. . . .

    Now they’re resolving to condemn the Iranian hostage-taking in the 1970s. How worthwhile that is. How worthless these people, to a man, are.

  9. Here’s my take on this, which will surprise no one: We are no longer a self-governing people.

  10. So–I hope everyone has plenty of money laid aside to pay the government-mandated health-insurance premium. Because if you don’t, you’ll go to jail.

  11. So long as there is a chance for political compromise or resolution, a civil war won’t happen. Watch out for the future, however.

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