Posted on 01/03/2010 8:55:36 PM PST by Delacon
I am stupid. You are taking about Corrigdore and Baatan.
You are Navajo. You gotta admit I was close.
“Should Republicans Have Compromised to Produce a Less-Bad Healthcare Bill?”
No, because then the big, fat government version might not have passed.
The Republicans obviously want the Dems plan just as badly, judging by their twinkle-toes “resistance” to it.
Once you have bought into big goverment and you have power and get paid by that big government, then everything else is easy once you convince the powerless that they need you and that you are the only game in town.
Not the Trail of Tears. The Long March or The Long Walk is the plight if the Navaho as the Dine were herded to other areas
You were very close. I had a teacher who served on Corrigedor. What a wonderful man he was
In terms of strategy the GOP did not do too bad with this bill: they offered an outline of a reform that respected the free market approach and stopped there. The premise of Bruce Bartlett is incorrect that they offered no alternative.
The author is correct that a compromise with the Dems would have been far worse. In fact, the bill as it is is already a compromise between various factions of the left.
One thing the GOP could have done better: they should have offered an alternative that is easy to understand and strikes at the heart of the problem: they should have given the same tax exemption the corporatons enjoy, to individuals as they purchase health care or health care insurance. That would have made all citizens who are now a third party to health care transactions, into consumers of health care. That would have been a principled, simple and radical position, exactly what a minority party should be adopting strategically.
Please, let it be true...
Send it to the pits of Hades where it will never see the light of day again.
Mmmmmmm........a loving couple (/snix).
BS, the dems did this on their own. Obama said, he didnt want input from the people who made the mess. he was talking about republicans even though they were not fully responsible.
The dems shut republicans right out. This article should point that out in the first paragraph.
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