So You Say You Want a Health Care Revolution
Beginning with a pledge to make health care more accessible to millions of Americans, Obama and his Democratic allies on Capitol Hill have instead made millions of Americans into serfs of the insurance companies who paid for their Senate seats. Not only did Obama predictably dump on seniors, a demographic that didn’t vote for him, but he managed to stab the same youth vote that got him to where he is today in the back by forcing them to buy health insurance in order to subsidize his social welfare programs.
The combination of Obama’s sense of political invulnerability and a Democratic congress desperate to stave off midterm election defeats during a depression brought us this far. And pork got us the rest of the way. And what the Democratic congress got is a final bundle of pork to take with them on their way out the door. Nancy Pelosi and those Senators and Congressman ensconced in safe liberal parts of the country may be safe, though even their constituents are increasingly disgusted with them, but their congressional majority that was built on conservative Democrats is very shaky indeed.
Harold
