Impossibly Stupid

The health care bill that's destined to emerge from the Senate Finance Committee contains the seeds of destruction for the Democratic Party. Maybe that's a good thing. Evidently many of the Democrats on the Committee, including Chairman Max Baucus ($ - Montana), are too dense to comprehend that forcing all Americans to buy private health insurance is not only not reform, but lays the kindling for massive popular revolt. The American public is still smart enough to know when it's being robbed in broad daylight; to be forced to fork over money to corporate insurance parasites for exactly nothing in return will undoubtedly enrage tens of millions of citizens. To date I haven't seen any serious speculation that the Finance Committee bill as drafted could ever become law but the track record of the Democratic Leadership is so reprehensible that anything is possible. My own guess (and I may well be wrong) is that if Baucus' bill is to be stopped it'll be stopped by progressives in the House who'll vote down a conference report, in which case we very well might not get a darn thing out of this entire 'health care reform' exercise. We'll see. Nothing would still be a much better choice — unless it were the death knell of the Democrats... Out of the ashes we could try again.