Day 11:00 pm
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Health Care Hypocrisy
The single factor that seemed to contribute the most to the Democrats defeat in Congress, the one thing that animated the highest animosity and energized the vote in opposition, was Health Care Reform. Now members of the Tea Party and many Republicans in Congress are vowing to “gut it”. If this is how conservatives plan to use their recently gained political capital, they will fall into the same trap as Democrats. After spending so much time and so many resources debating health care, not just recently, but over decades, Congress is poised to again squander their opportunities debating its undoing. The fundamental issue doesn’t even have anything to do with closely held beliefs, but with the most base of all things – political power. (more…)
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