healthcare debate

Want to know why Democrats keep having problems? Because on every single issue they play this game of “kick the can”. It’s the procrastination party!. Here’s the latest example:

Democrats want to take the offensive and propose higher tax rates for millionaires, companies that move factories overseas and wealthy people who make charitable contributions.

But here’s the problem – they want to do this in 2012! So while companies like G.E. and Bank of America continue to rake in record profits and pay $0 in taxes, we will continue to see things that matter to a majority of American’s cut.

Does this seem like DejaVu? Well it should. Think back to the healthcare debate, when Democrats kept kicking the can on getting American’s better coverage. After constant caving, we were told that it “would be fixed later”. I knew as soon as I heard that that later meant never. I had some bloggers tell me I was wrong on this, but here we are a year later and nothing has even been attempted to fix it.

This is total failure of leadership on the part of Democrats. We control the White House and one chamber of Congress, yet they sit there and act like the Republicans control everything. When we did control everything, they acted like the Republicans control everything. Do the brains in the Democratic Party really thing this is a way to increase voter enthusiasm? It sure as hell didn’t work last year and it won’t work again in 2012.

I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of the “oh well, maybe later” attitude of the Democratic Party, all the way up to the Oval Office.

I really like Chris Dodd and want him to start pushing his bill through to fix the FPL, but news like this really makes me angry with him too:

Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Wednesday ripped the Senate's "newest members" for the lack of comity in the upper chamber.

In a floor speech Wednesday night, Dodd said there is "nothing wrong" with partisanship, but added he has "been deeply disturbed by some of the [healthcare] debate I have heard, usually from newer members, usually those who have been here one, two, three years, who do not have an appreciation of what this chamber means and how we work together."

The general feel is that he was talking about people like Al Franken, who wouldn’t let Joe Lieberman extend his floor time this week.

Dodd is one of the long time Senators who don’t seem to realize that the Senate today is not the same as the Senate in 1981, when Dodd first went in. Partisanship is very much the order of business in the Senate today, and that is with a big thanks to the Republicans. Did he really think giving this speech would make the Republicans stop lying and obstructing and embrace the Democrats in some big Kumbaya moment? Was he even awake during the summer when Republicans were out filling the people’s heads with bald faced lies like “death panels”?

We have seen key issues that the majority of this country wants and voted for head to extinction because of the minority. We have also seen some Democratic senators paid off just to get their support (ie: Ben Nelson). This represents a key failure of the Senate and the whole “work together” meme is nothing more than a pipe dream.

By far one of the best speeches during yesterday’s healthcare debate came from Rep. George Miller (D-CA):