For more fun, go back and flip through campaign rhetoric re: health care. It's about like Glenn Beck's mewling in the beginning of last year that the American health care system was abysmal when he was having his hemorrhoids operated on¹, zomg it's so horrible we need relief and solutions and support for Americans and wait it's 2009? What's the rush? (McCain at least didn't support single-payer during the election, so at least there's a consistency in his vapidity. For hypocrisy, though, in McCainworld, you don't have to go far.)
The sad thing? Even with the mincing about on an issue that, like you said and needs to be shouted as loud as the cries of Nazism and fascism and touted as proudly as an assault weapon at a town hall meeting, is a human right, this is still the best we got. They're cowed to the point of cowardice, but even without two vertebrae to scrape together, they're as correct as they're brave to be. And time will prove them right -- if we can get a handle on health care costs in this country, we'll have brought to terms one of the most crippling fiscal strains on personal economies and the effect will be profound in enough of a trickle-down phenomenon to make Ronnie himself smile. If any significant reform comes from this push -- and it may not; the change we can believe in may be watered down to the change that is politically expedient for future consensus building (but BO, dude, this is not the time to surrender, this is the time to cash in the chips, for God's sake) -- you're right, is anyone in '12 or even '16 going to seriously lobby for a return to this fetid status quo? Probably, but only guised in code words: socialism, capitalism, free market, the American spirit, entrepreneurship, dying alone at home for want of a $300 prescription...oh, wait, one slipped through. Sorry.
¹Seriously. Not that a small reptilian part of me doesn't mind seeing him in pain, but I do feel a bit sorry for Beck '08. Beck '09 makes the story obvious: the hemorrhoid rejected him.
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The sad thing? Even with the mincing about on an issue that, like you said and needs to be shouted as loud as the cries of Nazism and fascism and touted as proudly as an assault weapon at a town hall meeting, is a human right, this is still the best we got. They're cowed to the point of cowardice, but even without two vertebrae to scrape together, they're as correct as they're brave to be. And time will prove them right -- if we can get a handle on health care costs in this country, we'll have brought to terms one of the most crippling fiscal strains on personal economies and the effect will be profound in enough of a trickle-down phenomenon to make Ronnie himself smile. If any significant reform comes from this push -- and it may not; the change we can believe in may be watered down to the change that is politically expedient for future consensus building (but BO, dude, this is not the time to surrender, this is the time to cash in the chips, for God's sake) -- you're right, is anyone in '12 or even '16 going to seriously lobby for a return to this fetid status quo? Probably, but only guised in code words: socialism, capitalism, free market, the American spirit, entrepreneurship, dying alone at home for want of a $300 prescription...oh, wait, one slipped through. Sorry.
¹Seriously. Not that a small reptilian part of me doesn't mind seeing him in pain, but I do feel a bit sorry for Beck '08. Beck '09 makes the story obvious: the hemorrhoid rejected him.