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The Far Left Scream
Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner
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7 Responses to “The Far Left Scream”
Yes, it's just the far left who wanted the public option. No one else. Nothing like a spin-cartoon. Unless the far left makes up about 75% of the US population.
This is getting more entertaining by the minute. The Obama fightin' priesthood take on the nutroots who helped put him in offfice. Please pass the popcorn. What next, a tag team with Howling Howard Dean? Oh wait…
What the “far left” really wanted was a single payer system, what they got offered a public option which they were grudgingly willing to go along with, and at the last minute that got jerked away leaving them feeling like a bunch of suckers who got played for chumps…
Good news for the Democratic Party, they'll likely get their “Health care reform”, bad news for the Democratic Party, having screwed their most reliable supporters, many of them will stay home in 2010. I wonder how many seats screwing their base is going to cost them?
As one Rep, I have stated that I favor a PO. But, it should be restricted to Cobra run out and other special situations. Of, course, this assumes everyone is required to have HI, and with a penalty with teeth not the gum job they now have.
“Far Left” means far to the left of the beltway, i.e. the whole country.
Sil is making the classic nutroots seem relatively sane — months after being corrected, still with the 70s per cent? (In fact, a dementedly higher figure now? Accompanied by screaming and flailing limbs, too?)
“This is getting more entertaining by the minute.”
Far lefty talk radio is really good these days, especially the damn-Obama-and-Dems ranting on it now.
“this assumes everyone is required to have HI, and with a penalty with teeth “
The public option was a universalist increment of federal health care takeover. Retaining the insurance model for now would work just as well, and you zero in once more on what matters, the compulsory part, whose essentiality does not lie with expanding the pool to include everybody (to lower per capita costs to the theoretical or practical minimum). The reason it matters so much is that it is establishing the tax that people will have to pay as participants in a federal takeover. “Get 'em used to paying” — the taxes.
(After all, the public _is_ the “payer” in the scheme many activists actually want, sooner or later.)