going it alone

Pathetic.

In sitting down to post, yet again, on Pelbama's inept shepherding of health care - even with a huge majority in both houses of Congress and control of the Executive Branch - I realized I could type:

Pathetic.

and be done with it.

But Matt Taibbi, who roasted Goldman Sachs and the administration recently, is back with an upcoming piece on health care reform in Rolling Stone. His post Obama's Pre-emptive Health Care Surrender is a teaser complete with a photo in which the light bringer looks every bit as smug as W on his most arrogant day. Taibbi takes no prisoners. Why should he - or any of us? The Pelbama is busy writing a law that amounts to a massive infusion of money for health insurance companies. Want to know why? Look here.

As I said before I could have handled the White House's health care P.R. better from a phone booth in Fresno wielding only stubby pencil and cursory notes on 1993. Which isn't saying much. Half the country would have coached the WH better than Axelrod and Rahm.

The talking point of the day is that Democrats plan on going it alone on Health care. The implication being that the party of Jefferson and FDR are finally growing a set. Of course when one reflects on this for 2.3 seconds the obvious question is: Hey Dems, did you honestly think you weren't going it alone already? It's not like the GOP has been showing up with casseroles and neighborly good intentions. 30 years after Reagen clocked Carter, Democrats still haven't learned that conservatives always play to win - an admirable trait even when I disagree -which is most of the time.

The first question is followed quickly by : Which faction of the Democratic party now intends to go it alone? The argument is between Democratic factions and has been for some time. Are the Progressives going to go it alone? Or the Blue Dogs? Are they going to go it alone separately?

This entire debate has been distorted from the beginning. The moment single payer was taken "off the table" the "debate" became a World Wrestling Entertainment match. A conjured smack down in which all contestants go along with the false spectacle - including, most importantly, the audience. Single payer may have failed to get enough votes in the end. That is not relevant. An alternative that everyone over 65 already has - was not even allowed to be discussed. When one side is not allowed to make its strongest case it's not a debate. It's a sideshow.

Pelosi and Obama handed over the health care Sudetenland and now feign surprise as the rest of Czechoslovakia is gobbled up.

All of this leads to another question: Was the plan all along to neuter health care reform?

It sure looks that way.

How many two by fours to the heads of liberals will Obama mete out before they get it?

Obama is a fraud.