I must confess, when I first read Chris Dodd’s “idea” I thought “there’s some merit to that.” I put idea in quote marks because it’s not really an idea, it’s like the ideas that I have whenever I smoke a joint, eh, this isn’t working, let’s put it aside for awhile and think about it later. It’s not so much an idea as an ultimate admission that you don’t have any idea.
It could have some merit if they were actually going to use those 6 weeks to come up with a plan, to lay the groundwork, to come back at the end of 6 weeks and blindside the dinosaurs with something so simple, so straightforward that it would be impossible to oppose.
Medicare for everybody.
European plan.
Canadian plan.
Massachusetts plan.
Same plan as congress has. Linked. Simple as that. The entire bill reads: Resolved: Every American citizen shall have access to the congressional health care package.
Something along those lines, and fuck ‘em if they want to filibuster. Keep hauling people in wheelchairs and hooked up to breathing machines in to testify in front of congress and make the republicans and Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson look like the inhuman monsters they really are. Do that until November of 2010.
A clear majority of the American people want a comprehensive, affordable health care system and if we stomp them in the 2010 elections, which we can if we all stop whining and stabbing Barry in the back. (O.K., he’s not a progressive, but he’s closer to it than any president we’ve had since 1963)
Then I read the comments over at Wonkette and realized that they are probably reading Chris Dodd a lot more accurately than I am and this is what it appears to be. A complete surrender.
Of course, we should have known that when Reid said that the Senate would wait for Brown to be seated before moving ahead with health care.
So, America is totally screwed. Take your damned 6 weeks. I’ll continue to bitch about it pointlessly, and try and figure out alternative solutions. And wonder. Is Peggy Noonan secretly a vampire?
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