Why are Democrats determined to pass health care that voters don't want?
Conservative Ed Morrissey does an excellent job explaining why Democrats are still trying to pass a grossly expensive, highly unpopular health care bill despite opposition from a clear majority of Americans. It actually makes political sense, in a liberally twisted kind of way.
Here are a few excerpts, but I highly recommend you read the entire article.
Quoting Andrew McCarthy:
Conservative Ed Morrissey does an excellent job explaining why Democrats are still trying to pass a grossly expensive, highly unpopular health care bill despite opposition from a clear majority of Americans. It actually makes political sense, in a liberally twisted kind of way.
Here are a few excerpts, but I highly recommend you read the entire article.
Quoting Andrew McCarthy:
They know America doesn't want this, but they've factored that in already
I hear Republicans getting giddy over the fact that “reconciliation,” if it comes to that, is a huge political loser. That’s the wrong way to look at it.It's about power and control
The Democratic leadership has already internalized the inevitablility of taking its political lumps. That makes reconciliation truly scary.
Since the Dems know they will have to ram this monstrosity through, they figure it might as well be as monstrous as they can get wavering Democrats to go along with.
Dems know Republicans will not be able to dismantle the monstrous bureaucratic beast (and the hundreds of thousands of government positions that go with it) once they get it in place.
They want socialized medicine and all it entails about government control even more than they want to win elections.Still, it's not a done deal
After all, if the party of government transforms the relationship between the citizen and the state, its power over our lives will be vast even in those cycles when it is not in the majority.
This is about power, and there is more to power than winning elections, especially if you’ve calculated that your opposition does not have the gumption to dismantle your ballooning welfare state.
They will put their heads down and go for as much transformation as they can get, figuring that once they get it, it will never be rolled back.Gotta give the Dems Credit. Unlike Republicans, they are willing to go down in flames for their political convictions:
The only question is whether there are enough Democrats who are conventional politicians and who care about being reelected, such that they will deny the leadership the numbers it needs.
Dennis Prager Agrees:
Most people on the Left are True Believers. This is critical to understand. They are willing to lose Congress; Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are prepared to lose both houses to get this through.Wouldn't it be great to have some true believers on the conservative side?
Why? Because losing an election cycle means nothing compared to taking over more of the American economy.
* - DISCLAIMER: I do not think the democrats are nazis, just your garden variety North American statists. I just think this picture from The People's Cube is incredibly funny, and quite apropos, nazi references aside.
