Obama The King is Dead Long Live Scott Brown
Republican Scott Brown won the Senate seat in Massachusetts. I think this means heath care reform is dead. This is a good thing since the reform legislation was essentially worse than doing nothing. Brown’s victory also signals the death of all hope. The cost of health insurance was the most critical domestic issue we needed to deal with. We failed to do anything about it. This crisis will now intensify. There are 30 million Americans uninsured now, and as premiums increase that number will increase. The problem doesn’t go away with this republican victory, it just gets worse. The issue will have to be taken up again only the urgency to act will be more intense.
The irony here is that while American compassion rains down on the victims of the Haitian earthquake, the lack of compassion shown to our own citizens is appalling. I guess until we see death in the streets we will not be moved into action. But when we do see death in the streets, and we will, we will be Haiti. We are rushing to the bottom. When we get there we won’t be able to turn back. The cost to reverse the decline will be prohibitive.
Republicans will now say that we should push the socialist heath care reform effort aside and deal with the most critical issue of jobs. I can tell you that the jobs debate will look the same as the health care debate with the same results. The heath care reform debate is what all debates in congress look like. It doesn’t matter what the issue is the characters are the same and the storyline is always the same. Democrats will introduce legislation and republicans will to the man vote against it.
Republicans don’t have a jobs program anymore than they had a health care reform program. When that debate commences Republicans will call for tax cuts for businesses. We will also here about capital gains tax reductions and elimination of taxes on dividends. But if such a bill was drawn up and brought to the floor for a vote they would vote it down. Why, because it would set the stage for economic collapse. We wouldn’t be able to borrow the money to fund the reduction in tax receipts. Not only that, but our borrowing costs go up as our deficit increases.
There are no tax cuts when you have a trillion dollar deficit and even the republicans don’t have the nerve to vote for one. So the election of Scott Brown brings us back to square one with one difference; there is now absolutely no hope of government action.
Democrat or Republican it doesn’t matter because Washington is controlled by special interests. The hope we had in Barrack Obama was that the stranglehold these interests had on our government would be broken. The election of Scott Brown is the final piece of evidence needed to prove the case against the hope for change.
Only a fool could have believed that the election of Obama would bring change. Now you know the truth. Government of the people and by the people died a long time ago.
