The behavior of the Democrats since Scott Brown became “the 41st vote� against Obamacare reminds me of “Weekend at Bernie’s,� the 1989 film in which a couple of guys try to convince everyone that a corpse is in fact still alive.
Congressional Democrats and the White House continue to negotiate with one another about the best way to deal with the increasingly cumbersome corpse of their health care “reform� project, while insisting that it’s alive and well:
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said, ‘No way is it dead, because it’s so important for the country. And we will find a way to pass it.’
Unfortunately for the President and his delusional accomplices, the Republicans keep pointing out that the corpse of Obamacare is beginning to smell. As John Boehner put it yesterday:
This bill is dead … Republicans are not going to work off this monstrosity.
This inconvenient fact is not penetrating to the nuttier precincts of the Democrat leadership, however. They apparently plan to meet this weekend to discuss how to revive the stiff via reconciliation (a.k.a. the “nuclear option�):
They’re meeting with each other this weekend to pursue it …they aren’t ready to let 100,000 pesky votes in Massachusetts get in the way of fulfilling their destiny.
If these boneheads don’t bury Obamacare and move on, the inevitable “destiny” of the Democrats and the President will be political oblivion. No amount of skullduggery can revive this cadaver. The voters have had enough.
UPDATE:
Keith Hennessey, a White House economic advisor in the Bush administration, isn’t buying the “bill is alive” BS:
I wrote yesterday that the bill is not dead until the Speaker says it’s dead. I think she in effect did so yesterday. Based on this development I have increased my prediction of collapse to 90%, and I believe the comprehensive bill is dead.
Yep. It’s a goner.
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