Actual Health Care Takes Back Seat to Procedure
I suppose you have to get pretty jaded before you can find the current health care debate in Congress to be amusing. OK… call me jaded. I have long since given up hope that the assembled clowns, crooners, swindlers and shouters on the hill would strip down and re-tool the proposed health care legislation into anything useful, but there’s no reason that we can’t at least sit back, munch some popcorn, and watch the absolute worst aspects of the legislative sausage factory operating in full view of the world. The strangest part of the story, though, seems to be how everyone in Congress has pretty much stopped talking about the details of health care. Now it’s all about the process… how can it be snuck through like a burglar in the night or how can it be shut down cold, dying a death of a thousand cuts. With that in mind, I invite you to read my new column today at Pajamas Media, Talk of Health Care Lost in Mania Over Process. Remember: even if there is no health care scheme passed, it wasn’t a waste of time if we all learned something about congressional rules of order and 19th century Supreme Court decisions!
5 Responses to “Actual Health Care Takes Back Seat to Procedure”
At some point in time you have to move from the discussion of health care to the actual passing of reform. Reps don't like it, but it is the natural progression of things.
Not until there is a sane bill you don't! Read this post by Joe for a good reason what what you said is not a true statement: http://themoderatevoice.com/66327/why-are-the-d…
And 'passing of the bill' is becoming a VERY loose term, to say the least. What next, if the current chicanery fails? Obama 'deems' it passed himself, and declares it law via fiat?
Dem progress: In the past, they didn't read their bad legislation they rushed to approve. Now they're so desperate they're willing to avoid having actually to vote to approve the bad legislation they want to approve.
The question is whether the majority of voters in Congress think it is a sane bill. If the elected President is for it…and Congress is for it….then it should be passed. Sane or not.
I guess we will find out what Congress thinks soon enough.
Time for a crusher
“[Dems] willing to avoid having actually to vote to approve the bad legislation they want to approve”
I wonder how well that would have worked as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.