How Politics Works

A Republican inserted a provision into the Health Care bill to offer voluntary end-of-life counseling to people who want to decide for themselves, while they can still make the decision, what steps should be taken in cases where medicine may not be able to save them (ex. stay on life support when there's no hope of meaningful recovery, or not). Frankly, a good idea.

But, Republicans, who want to defeat Obama at all costs, say this gives Obama permission to create "death panels" which will meet to decide who lives and who dies. And then they try to prove this was the plan all along by taking a paragraph in an academic article written by a man who is now an Obama health care adviser from 13 years ago, out of context. The Republican base goes insane, as usual.

Instead of pointing out that this is an idiotic interpretation of the provision, Democrats remove the provision.

And the media notices what's happening only when it's too late to matter.

This is why we can't have nice things.

3 thoughts on “How Politics Works”

  1. Alex Russell

    From this – and from Reid turning against bringing terrorists into the US from Guantanamo – I’m foreseeing another sequence.

    1. Republicans say Democrats plan to pack conservatives onto trains and transport them to death camps throughout the Midwest.

    2. Democrats respond by terminating Amtrak.

    You sure didn’t see the Republican Congress acting like this. It’s like the ghost of General McClellan is haunting congressional Democrats’ strategy: For years, we were saying that what the country needed was to have a big strong Democratic Party army marching around. Now that it’s in place – the vision to save the country continues to consist of keeping that big Democratic army marching around intact and undamaged. … What, you want it to risk itself by defending positions or – *choke* – engaging the enemy?!? Are you m-m-mad???

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