Health insurance fight and 2010
From the Washington Post:
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A CNN poll shows 36 percent of the public in favor of what the Democratic Senate is trying to do to health care, 61 percent opposed. It is clear what the public wants Congress to do: Take a mulligan and start over. So Republicans can win in 2009 by stopping the bill, or in 2010 by saying: Unpopular health-care legislation passed because of a 60-40 party-line decision to bring it to a Senate vote. Therefore each incumbent Democrat is responsible for everything in the law. [AO: Americans are concerned about health insurance legislation under consideration in the Senate. This is clear from the CNN poll. However the same individuals surveyed in the CNN poll, while disfavoring the Senate version of reform by 61 percent to 36 percent, were in favor of a public option by 53 percent to 46 percent. What is a Democratic Senate to too? If you consider that many of the senators opposing the public option are Republicans, one wonders how successful a charge in 2010 against Democrats for passing unpopular health insurance legislation will be. After all, part of the reason the health insurance legislation is unpopular is that Republicans are blocking portions of the legislation people favor, namely the public option. So, the writer, George Will, is suggesting that Republicans campaign against Democrats, accusing them of passing unpopular legislation, when in fact one of the reasons the legislation was made unpopular is that Republicans prevented Democrats from adding provisions that the American people want. Welcome to Washington.] |
Rushing to lock the nation into expensive health-care and climate-change commitments, Democrats are in an understandable frenzy because public enthusiasm for both crusades has been inversely proportional to the time the public has had to think about them. . . Read the full opinion HERE.
