Collective Conscious

I really respect Repub­li­cans. They know how to get things done, and how not to get things done, and they know how to be taken seri­ously doing either one. It doesn’t mat­ter who their actual poli­cies ben­e­fit or who they hurt. Now, though, the GOP is tak­ing it to a whole new level, pub­lish­ing a doc­u­ment that might as well be titled “Screw Major­ity Rule, We Run This Place.” Here’s a clip:

After going it alone on health care reform for nearly a year, Pres­i­dent Obama has decided he wants to bring Repub­li­cans into the con­ver­sa­tion. Here’s the prob­lem: unless the Pres­i­dent and Speaker Pelosi are will­ing to scrap their gov­ern­ment take over and hit the reset but­ton, there’s not much to talk about.

Repub­li­cans believe the sta­tus quo is unac­cept­able, but so is any health reform pack­age that spends money we don’t have or raises taxes on small busi­nesses and work­ing fam­i­lies in a reces­sion. To that point, House Repub­li­cans have offered the only plan that will lower health care costs, which is what the Pres­i­dent said was the goal at the start of this debate.

If Democ­rats aren’t will­ing to use the tools at their dis­posal to force pro­gres­sive change, then Repub­li­cans are going to stop it. It doesn’t get any sim­pler than that.