Posted by
flagwaver on Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:41:46 PM
It seems that the much ballyhooed "Healthcare Summit" is off and running, but I still say it is a waste of time and effort. Obama and his buddies are going to do what they want, vox populi be damned; they want a massive overhaul of the healthcare system and that's what they intend to have. They came armed with a new bill slapped together by the White House and with the attitude best summed up by Chris Dodd (Lame Duck-CT) yesterday that after the summit, the GOP had better be ready to join with the Democrats or "get out of the way." That is odd coming from a lame duck with no real pull left, but it succinctly sums up the Democratic attitude about this. They know the answers before the test is given, so everyone else just needs to copy off them or fail.
It amazes me that the GOP would allow themselves to be used as political punching bags when they obviously have political momentum on their side. Obama and the Democrats have been reeling since they lost Virginia and New Jersey, yet the GOP sends representatives to this dog and pony show to be scolded by losers like Harry Reid, and lectured by the Campaigner-in Chief that this isn't a campaign! But we all know that everything political done in front of a camera is campaign material, either for a current campaign or a future one. And the dolts from the GOP are making a slew of commercials for the Democrats.
What the GOP leaders should have done was take Newt Gingrich's advice* and told the Democrats that the only way for the meeting to go on was for them to be given time to present their proposals, after the Democrats presented theirs, or no dice. Instead, they allowed the Democrats to pick the venue, the time, date, and the staging...all of which will go to make the Democrats look like champions of the Republic. Or they could have simply pointed out that since there were already congressional plans in place to proceed with reconciliation, regardless of the outcome of the meeting, they would not be attending the meeting at all.
About the only good thing that can be said of this meeting is that during the six hours they wasted yapping without results, Congress wasn't screwing us and Obama wasn't screwing anything up!