Legal Commentary

No Parades

By Big Tent Democrat

Sure, there are parades on St. Patrick's Day. But surely there can be no parades for the health bills. Turkana explains:

A year ago, we had a Democratic president elected by the largest majority in a generation. No Democratic president had been elected by such a large majority in a couple generations. We had large Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, and by summer we had sixty members of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate. We also had a nation still politically shellshocked from the worst administration in history, and yearning for transformational change. And the result, on the most important item on the domestic agenda, is, essentially, a 1993 plan put forth by moderate Republicans. And we should be celebrating this?

[. . .] We are where we are. The bill is worth passing. Barely. On the margins. Those 1993 Republican moderates have something to celebrate. For the rest of us, the day this bill becomes law is the day we start trying to make it something truly worth celebrating. Something that will provide health care, and not just health insurance, to all Americans. There is a difference. As a lot of people soon will discover.

What he said. Speaking for me only.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).