Free-For-All Pie Fight In Congress Over Healthcare Reform

Is the bill so bad that we should give up on the politics and just focus on the policy (and the corruption)? And kill the damn thing? Last night Rachel Maddow gave voice to our concerns about getting on board the Republican train to nowhere:



John McCain: "Doctor Dean, I am with you." Enough to make you want to throw up? Is it possible to make the bill better and pass it? The answer is "no," not unless voters want it badly enough to defeat a bunch of conservatives from both parties next November. And with the multi-dimensional chess player in the White House unwilling or unable to articulate a vision that captures the admittedly shallow imagination of the public, that looks highly unlikely. So in the mad rush to get Big PhRMA and Wall Street to finance his probably hopeless re-election campaign, it looks like the only winners in the battle over healthcare "reform" will be the insurance giants and a gaggle of conservative legislators from Jim DeMint, who will be proven right on Obama's Waterloo, to Joe Lieberman, who will have gotten revenge on the progressives who have made him a public pariah.