Master of the Obvious, or, I Agree With Joe Lieberman

You’d have to be a fool to think that he’s wrong here, or that this state­ment is even news­wor­thy:

“I voted last night as 59 oth­ers did to go ahead with the debate because I want us to begin not only debat­ing health care reform but doing some­thing about health care reform,” Lieber­man said. “But I don’t think any­body feels this bill, as Sen­a­tor Reid put it down — though he made a lot of progress blend­ing bills together — I don’t think any­body thinks this bill will pass.”

No, this bill will def­i­nitely have to change in end­less minu­tiae in order to sur­vive the four remain­ing floor votes, and those minute changes will redis­trib­ute bil­lions of dol­lars among mil­lions of peo­ple. There will be win­ners and losers, but that’s Con­gres­sional pol­i­tics. That’s Sen­ate pol­i­tics. It’s not pretty. It’s not the best sys­tem. In fact, it’s not even a good sys­tem. Unfor­tu­nately, though, it’s what we have, and we have to try our best to get some­thing out of it.

What we get might even include a “mod­est” pub­lic option.

22 November 2009 – 4:30 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Health Care, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (172)