Sam Stein reports that Still The Maverick™ was serving up his usual steaming piles on one of the Sunday yakfests this past weekend:
Health care legislation would be in a "very different place today," if Senator Ted Kennedy, (D-Mass) were healthy enough to participate in negotiations, Kennedy's longtime colleague and occasional foe, Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.), said on Sunday.
In an appearance on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," McCain said that the Massachusetts Democrat, stricken by brain cancer, was "as close to being indispensable as any individual I've ever known in the Senate." Without him, McCain added, the health care debate had stagnated far more than had he been in the chamber.
"He had a unique way of sitting down with the parties at a table and making the right concessions, which really are the essence of successful negotiations," McCain said. "So it's huge that he's absent, not only because of my personal affection for him, but because I think the health care reform might be in a very different place today."
The MSM still eats this stuff up, which by itself is a big part of the problem, but it strikes me as thoroughly dishonest -- what's the point of saying "If only Ted was around" when there's no chance that can happen? It's a throwaway line that lets McCain look like he's "reaching out" (Look! Bipartisanship! Shiny!) when there's no chance he'd ever have to back up his words with action.
And worse, he likes Ted because Ted knew how to make concessions? Can I get a big ol' WTF?
Remember, Angry Johnny, your side lost the last two elections, and if you all have made a single concession of worth, I have yet to hear about it. Just because the Democrats are some combination of too disorganized, too self-centered, and too spineless to exercise the majority they have doesn't give you any right to be demanding concessions.
Why do you trick me into reading this stuff, watertiger? I was already mad enough from reading about the even more two-faced, Holy Joe Lieberman.
2 comments:
now its up to us..
…like we’ve all been saying, it’s not a good proposition. Look at Canada and all other countries that have this type of health reform…it’s not beneficial to folks who truly need good and quick health attention.
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