Where Were The Republicans?

We all hear that perhaps 70% of Americans are opposed to BO’s plan. Perhaps, but we know plenty of lefties who think it’s just fine. Actually, "think" is not the correct word with reference to these poor souls. They don’t think in the sense most of us understand the word. It’s closer to a hot flash or a random blast of emotion, untethered.

Anyway, it’s curious that they claim (change of word) it’s just fine. If they cared about their own self interest and that of their family naturally they would oppose the plan. There’s something else afoot. Part of it is pure partisanship; they’d swallow more Kool Aid if the DNC called for it. Part of it is a sense of embarrassment; there’s no way they’re about to admit a major screw up, and those who continue to look for an admission of guilt just aren’t going to get it. Folks who’ve been taken by their own party may talk about it, but only behind closed doors.

BO has acted perfectly in character, yes, but we don’t think he has got all of us in a heap of trouble. This is not Greece. Even some of the Founders lost hope just after the Revolution. Don’t. Americans won’t let this thing stand. It’s true that BO’s operatives went for health as the vehicle to the promised land because they know that repeal is difficult - conventional wisdom is that once it’s done, it’s done. No, we will get free-market reforms that work.

But certainly the Republicans were asleep at the switch. Some say it is the party’s marriage to the insurance companies, just as others, us included, know that it is the Dem’s beholden to trial lawyers that kept any cost savings out of BO’s bill. For whatever reason, if the Republicans had acted early on they would have saved all of us a heck of a lot of trouble.

However, there is one flip side to the fact they didn’t, and, it’s not a bad one - the recent exercise means an end to the far left other than as an outlier, for generations to come. They 1) gained traction, 2) showed their stuff, and 3) it gagged most normal folk.

We’re optimistic for this Country.

Robert Craven