Hope for the Demise of Health Care Reform Bill?
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that Herseth Sandlin went conservative and stated that she would not be supporting the current health care bill which Pelosi wants to shove through before we all wake up this Sunday morning.
In addition, Frank Kratovil (whom you’ve likely never heard about) from Maryland is yet another Democrat representative who will not be supporting the bill. This one is interesting because he and Steny Hoyer (2nd in charge of House Democrats) are supposed to be good friends.
I would not be surprised to see others join them over the next 24 hours or so (even as it starts to appear likely that the vote will not happen until next week). After all, the strongest hardwired human instinct is that of self-preservation–and these representatives, while we might disagree with them philosophically, are quite human.
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5 Comments, Comment or Ping
Haggs
06 November 2009, 18:58, UTC
What kind of inhuman monster would hope for the demise of a reform that will help people and improve our broken health care system. So much for compassionate conservatives. You guys are so blinded by your irrational hatred of the government that you don’t seem to care that people are suffering out there. I’m starting to believe that Rep. Grayson’s radical comments about Republicans wanting people to die quickly.
How can you live with yourself?
Haggs
06 November 2009, 19:01, UTC
I’m sorry. That was uncalled for. I’m just really upset about Herseth Sandlin voting against this reform that I lashed out. Ever feel like someone you’ve been loyal to has betrayed you? Well, I appologize for bringing that to your blog. Please remove my dumb, awful post.
Michael
07 November 2009, 11:46, UTC
Haggs,
What has been said, has been said. Thanks for clarifying your thoughts and I do understand the concept of loyalty and betrayal.
I would like to say that I am absolutely in favor of caring for those least able to care for themselves–but that it’s not government’s job to do that caring, it is my job (and that of my family, my church, the people in my community).
Haggs
07 November 2009, 14:26, UTC
Thanks for understanding.
As to your second point, that’s where liberals and conservatives disagree. I believe our government has a duty to care for its citizens. It should be the job of our government to help those who are suffering from poverty and sickness and hunger. Any government that is not doing those duties doesn’t deserve to run anything, in my opinion.
And, again, I appologize for my previous post.
Michael
07 November 2009, 16:17, UTC
Apology accepted. For me (and many other conservatives) power, particularly the power that a government can use to provide anything for one citizen by taking it from another citizen is not to be desired.