"A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition."

Translation= lets do this real fast before they can figure out what we are doing.

Excerpt from a book I'm readng...

"I doubt if running was his idea."

"No, he was recruited.  That makes it even more shameful.  They look around, pick some greenhorn with a nice smile and no record to attack, and package him with their slick marketing.  That's politics. "

Wow..why does that ring a bell?

The only thing this bill is going to stimulate is peoples' hackles when they finally realize what a tremendous debacle this is going to be. Hey..All you out there who derided Bush for your grandkid's being burdened with teh cost of the war...How about some deriding of this mess that your great-grandkids are going to be paying for?

Does anyone remember the outcry about how rapidly the Patriot Act was passed? This bill went through MUCH more quickly and none of those voices are being raised about it. Whos heads are in the sand now? As I said in another post, the democrats passed this so quickly just because they could. It really didn't matter what was in it.

I certainly hope the bill is pro-health care and anti-alternative-health care.   As pointed out, traditional health care is a huge employer and can certainly generate more jobs.  And, as opposed to homeopathy and such, it actually *WORKS.*

The only thing this bill is going to stimulate is peoples' hackles when they finally realize what a tremendous debacle this is going to be.

Or it could turn out to be the first step in cleaning up the mess.  It hasn't even been signed yet.  We were certainly fortunate to have elected a strong enough majority in the House to pass it--as Daschle's reported to have said, hit them fast before they can oppose good sense.  If we'd gone with the much-derided health care proposals in the Clinton years we wouldn't be in nearly the bad shape we are today, where even the AMA has decided we need reform.

Does anyone remember the outcry about how rapidly the Patriot Act was passed? This bill went through MUCH more quickly and none of those voices are being raised about it.

Did it?  They've been discussing it since October.  Speed's not necessarily a bad thing--since the proposal has been up on websites for our reading pleasure all along--unlike the <spit>Patriot</spit> Act.

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Excerpt from a book I'm readng..,"I doubt if running was his idea."

Which book, Nancy?  Not Obama's, I'll bet.

Nope, not Obamas.  Has nothing to do with Obama.  It was the similarity that struck me.

Speaking of books.  Is that a new bookstore on the corner of 23 and Chester next to Jack?  Says parking in the alley.