Way to go for the team that put the health care reform together! After watching President Obama's speech of 'celebration & call to action' last night, I was struck by the lack of civility in Congress. Several who expressed it best are -
Update from Medscape - nursing journal:
http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/healthcare-act-provisions?src=mp&spon=24&uac=143390HX
Read Maureen Dowd: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/opinion/24dowd.html?th&emc=th
Read David Frum: http://www.frumforum.com/davidfrum - Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.
It’s hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer themselves that they’ll compensate for today’s expected vote with a big win in the November 2010 elections. But:
(1) It’s a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the economy will have improved and the immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs.
(2) So what? Legislative majorities come and go. This healthcare bill is forever. A win in November is very poor compensation for this debacle now.
So far, I think a lot of conservatives will agree with me. Now comes the hard lesson:
A huge part of the blame for today’s disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves.
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing. We were going for all the marbles. This would be Obama’s Waterloo – just as healthcare was Clinton’s in 1994...
Read Kunstler: http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/03/the-party-of-cruelty.html#more
Harris Poll commentary: http://www.leftake.com/
