Do your own research, Google or Bing = DeMint Waterloo. Or do the same search on Google News.
For the quick lowdown, click and read this screenshot, from here.
After Obama's quiet, measured, and reasoned press conference, and after he released upon demand from CREW the list of Health Industry key people he'd met with since taking office in sincere, ongoing consensus building efforts, including influential meetings with AMA people causing that physicians' group to be supportive of the true need for reform; after all that we see the GOP tactic is to stall, stall, and then stall some more against the growing national will for reform.
The GOP Napoleonic emporor's called out as naked, naked delay, playing with one of the major things that is causing worried concern among Americans. How can/will the other GOP delay-mongers and nay-sayers try to talk their way out of DeMint's exposing their bare-knuckled screw-the-public truths? It will be interesting to see how well the post-Rovian GOP spin doctors do with this hot patoto.
My bet. Poorly.
DeMint was truthful. He exposed the truth. Spinning away from that will be problematic for the entire GOP anti-healthcare-reform pro-status-quo minions.
And how will they look if all they appear to be doing is saying, "Why couldn't the dumb SOB from South Carolina have thought a bit before shooting his mouth off."
Not good. For the Grand Old Party.
GOP; ball's in your court. Explain yourselves.
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One thought worth facing in all the partisanship.
It is clear the Dem propaganda machine is all over the DeMint commentary, and KOS has picked it up, e.g., here.
What would be unfortunate is if the Dems wholly get away with blaming their Republican "strawman," alone, over this because with the Whitehouse held by the Dems, and both houses of Congress decisively held by the Dems, the truth is it will be a compromised situation not because the GOP gets in the way, they are too weak to do it alone, but because a substantial bloc of the Dems get in the way too.
The Blue Dog Dems and other Dems owing their souls to the insurance industry lobbying-and-campaign-donations crowd will be the bigger factor in lessening good reform into a hashed up mess of quasi-reform, if that is what as I expect, will emerge.
Bigger than the GOP, which has the will and orientation to oppose reform, but not the power, will be an impediment-oriented coalition including GOP and some Dems, enought to matter.
So, be truthful if in politics as a Dem.
Be vigilant, if in the public wanting actual not token reform.
Don't let ANYONE pull the wool over your eyes, from either party.
If, and it's a presumption, but if Obama truly wants good solid real reform and not mere cost shifting, diddling, and such, with nice talking points for the next election; but if he wants true reform, he will have to fight and drag along many unwilling Democrats to the effort.
That's the ugly truth from which the Dem propaganda machine that is now jumping all over DeMint would want to distract your attention.
Not only do the GOP scumbags need to be watched and disarmed, there is bipartisan scumbagging afoot and responsible for some of the goings-on (or else there'd have been reform decades ago), and if folks are distracted or deluded from seeing that truth I fear the final healthcare reform product will suffer, and be less than best.
Watch everybody, with your money and your futures on the table.
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A quite sensible well-reasoned op-ed, here. Please read it. Besides saying the politicians will have to be more statesmen for a while to move off the dime and produce a package, with consequent abandonment of untenable ineffective lying to people by denying that the current system has failings, and with a cautionary bit about perfection sometimes being being the enemy of sufficient - in economics the question of satisficing vs optimization. The emergent package has to at least be satisficing, and then over time things can be tuned to be better when weaknesses are seen or when technologies improve and treatments evolve.
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For a flavor of who the dissemblers and foot-draggers and perhaps well-intentioned ones hoping to be all things to all people are, beyond DeMint's ham-handed hatchet job, compare here, here, here and here. It is not just the GOP, it is Pelosi saying we have to soft-pedal how it can be paid for, and with that, take a deep breath and hope; it is McConnell from a tabacco state saying cut the plaintiffs' litigation and if people smoke, or are obese, it's their own fault; it is Joe Lieberman from the state of insurance company headquarters saying take our time; it is UnitedHealth Group from our State, with its profit gains recently reported. That's only a sampling, and not presented as exhaustive of all dimensions of the situation. But the enemies and pratfalls of reform run further than just DeMint talking stupidly on a stupid Fox TV show intended to be followed by stupid people.