William Krystol let the cat out of the bag today when he said that the Republicans need to defeat this bill not because it is bad but because they need the momentum to stop healthcare legislation down the road. They are fighting the bill for partisan reasons not economic reasons. Should they succeed then the patient may die and worse measures will be needed.
The comment applies today to the healthcare debate and bill. I have no doubt that the energy bills will be the treated the same way. This is not how our two party system has always worked in the past. Negotiation and compromise used to be name of the game. It seems that way of doing business in the US Congress was left behind sometime during the Clinton Administration. I blame my old party, the Repubicans. Not only have did they leave the death of compromise behind but they no longer are representative of the values of Goldwater that first brought me to the party.
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