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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (12275)	12/11/2009 10:35:05 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 42652

I'm finding interesting the opposition from the far left to the health care reform bills. It looks like the Dems are now displaying the same problem that the Reps have with their hostility toward the RINOs. The D's haven't yet reached the point the R's have where the base would rather be a minority party permanently out of power than move enough towards the center to actually win. It will be interesting to see how this plays out. "I should add that I think that Kevin's right on one thing: the base is a real problem for the party. I was talking to a libertarian friend yesterday who is a professor in the midwest, and we were marvelling at just how delusional many Obama voters seem to have been about what he was going to accomplish. Don't get me wrong--I certainly don't approve of everything Obama has done. But the guy got elected to be president of the United States, not Prime Minister of Sweden. Anyone who seriously entertained the notion that the procedural obstacles to enacting legislation in the United States would suddenly fall away--along with the essentially center-right politics of the American voter--is probably not mature enough to be driving. Yet Obama's progressive base is incredibly demoralized by the inability to pass sweeping cap and trade and health care legislation without input from conservatives, or special interest groups. To me, it seems obvious that they should still be strongly supporting Obama and Democrats, for all their flaws. But it doesn't seem to be obvious to them, and it looks like they're not going to mobilize for 2010 the way they did in 2008, even if Congress manages to pass some monstrous kludge of a health care bill in the new year." meganmcardle.theatlantic.com

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