Are We Healthy Yet?

Over at the Tampa Bay Buzz they are asking: Why is Charlie Crist bragging about Cover Florida?

“Cover Florida” is the Potemkin health care reform for the state of Florida. Charlie “strong-armed” health insurance companies into offering “less expensive” alternatives so all Floridians could afford to buy “health insurance”. You get a card and everything for next to nothing. Well, the card is worth next to nothing, but the “insurance” is worth even less. To say these policies have high deductibles, doesn’t begin to express the reality. Charlie wants to become a Senator so he can do this to for all Americans. Hey, everyone will get a card to carry in their wallet.

McClatchy says that Republicans bet on attacking Democrats. For almost everyone outside of the Oval Office, this is the equivalent of saying the sky is blue. Of course they are going to attack. Given the Dem numbers in Congress, the Republicans can’t be blamed for anything. They can honestly say that they didn’t have the numbers to block anything, and they are right [astounding, isn’t it]. The Republicans can’t stop a single bill because there are 60 members of the Dem caucus in the Senate, and the House has a firm majority. There is no negative for anything the Republicans do, because any failure is a Democratic failure. They can vote for Mom, apple pie, and the flag, and then oppose every other measure including health care.

Melissa was making a different point in this post, but shows that Hillary Clinton gets it: “… if President Obama, you know, walked on water, [John Bolton] would say he couldn’t swim.”

It isn’t just John Bolton, it is every Republican. They have absolutely no reason to help the President or the Congress accomplish anything. There is no benefit to them, and cooperation of any kind will be punished by the whackos who control their party.