Collective Conscious

Yet they lie and lie and lie about it. Let’s just ask the most pop­u­lar con­ser­v­a­tive financier in the world, War­ren Buffett:

“I would vote for the Sen­ate bill.”

Ah yes he would. Now let’s see what some promi­nent Repub­li­cans have said about that. Christopher Buckley:

Get­ting back to Buf­fett, why should we lis­ten to him?

Because in addi­tion to being one of the wealth­i­est self-​​made Amer­i­cans alive, he is also one of the smartest.

Note that Buck­ley then used Buf­fett as a ratio­nale to scrap the bill and start over. How about an actual GOP legislator?

SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER: Well, he’d have to start over.  As War­ren Buf­fet actu­ally said yes­ter­day, start over and focus on cost.

BRIAN GOLDSMITH: But War­ren Buf­fet also said he’d vote for the Sen­ate bill over the sta­tus quo.

SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER: He did, but I wouldn’t.

To be fair, Buf­fett said that if it were an option, he would rework the bill to focus more on cost con­trol. That’s not an option any­more — this is the com­pro­mise bill, built over a gru­el­ing year, that has the polit­i­cal will behind it for pas­sage. Given the option between this or noth­ing, I’m with Buf­fett: pass it.