Thursday, August 13, 2009

dealing with snakes

Probably the biggest mistake, in my view, of the debate over health care reform right now is that the Republicans have been included in the discussion. It would be better if Obama just stepped around them.

I suppose that the formalities of democracy have to be observed by a President who really believes in it, but let's hope he never forgets he is dealing with the Congressional Republicans who have no intention of ever really cooperating with him on anything.

They, and a lot of Democratic Congresspeople have been bought by the health industry. It can do this because it is a monster with a huge amount of money. Some people are trying to straighten out the mess. Others are spending billions to keep it in chaos.

1 comment:

Dashmann said...

I believe the town hall meetings are exposing a basic distrust of our Congresspeople and Senators by the general populace.
These people vote where the money is and where their party stands instead of their consciences take them.
Why should every vote be one party be 95% for and the other party be 95% against?
The two party system does more damage to voter trust than any other thing.
A good example is sending our young people to their deaths in Iraq.
The Republicans voted 95% for it and the Democrats voted 95% against it.
This was a conscience decision as are many others.
60- 40, 40 - 60 in each party should have been the maximum split if these people wer doing their jobs properly.
This is why the general public has NO trust in congress.