This article in the New York Times just leaves me shaking my head. It could be good news depending on the result, and it was good for an ironic laugh. But no matter what, it shows how much trouble our politicians have put us in and how little chance we have.
Representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee, is ignoring the fiscally conservative democrats on his own committee and since he doesn’t have the votes to get the bill out of the committee without them he’s threatening to bypass the committee. And those Blue Dogs (fiscally conservative democrats) are threatening to turn the committee over to the republicans (according to Waxman).
I’ve always said out government is at it’s best when no party is in charge and they are forced to work together or do nothing. Now there’s the added amusement of watching a party implode.
The big downside is that Mr. Waxman will get the bill he wants. The absurdity of this is apparent when you consider that Waxman is a rep. from California. A state that is essentially bankrupt and paying salaries and bills with IOU’s. Now Mr. Waxman wants to make the California excesses national and is ignoring the people trying to reign in costs. The democrats say they want this to be a bipartisan effort yet they can’t even come to an agreement among themselves and are threatening to propose a bill that did not get approved by the Committee.
You still think this will be real reform? I ask again, what’s changing except who pays and the (increased) amount of money going to the healthcare industry?
Health Care Reform From This Guy?
Representative Henry Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee, is ignoring the fiscally conservative democrats on his own committee and since he doesn’t have the votes to get the bill out of the committee without them he’s threatening to bypass the committee. And those Blue Dogs (fiscally conservative democrats) are threatening to turn the committee over to the republicans (according to Waxman).
I’ve always said out government is at it’s best when no party is in charge and they are forced to work together or do nothing. Now there’s the added amusement of watching a party implode.
The big downside is that Mr. Waxman will get the bill he wants. The absurdity of this is apparent when you consider that Waxman is a rep. from California. A state that is essentially bankrupt and paying salaries and bills with IOU’s. Now Mr. Waxman wants to make the California excesses national and is ignoring the people trying to reign in costs. The democrats say they want this to be a bipartisan effort yet they can’t even come to an agreement among themselves and are threatening to propose a bill that did not get approved by the Committee.
You still think this will be real reform? I ask again, what’s changing except who pays and the (increased) amount of money going to the healthcare industry?
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