Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Well, they did it
It was expected that the public option would not get out of the finance committee and three allegedly Democratic senators voted to insure that it didn't happen.
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.It goes without saying that these three were too well paid to give any attention whatsoever to what their own voters and the majority of Americans want. Mouthing pieties about fiscal responsibility and seeking to keep costs down, they voted against the most cost effective measure the bill could have.
Ironically, the more liberal amendment offered by Rockefeller is also more fiscally responsible, according the Congressional Budget Office. Rockefeller's package would have shaved $50 billion of the bill's cost over a ten-year period.They all talk the talk, but it is insurance money that walks their walk.
Nevertheless, Republican senators argued that the public option would bankrupt the country and lead to a single-payer system.
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