I can sum a liberal's new idea up right now, Throw money at it, if that doesn't work throw more money at it.
Ma, you think Obama/Bernanke/Geithner et al decided on a whim to throw billions at the US in the form of a stimulus package just because they were a group of bored liberals who could think of nothing better to do and who just wanted to spend wildly and recklessly? The same with HCR.
The wisdom of the stimulus or HCR, debating the pros, cons, intended targets and historical consequences of the decisions can’t be fully answered for awhile, but to it just call it liberal wasteful spending serves no purpose IMO.
I didn't call it wasteful spending. What I said was in order to placate the various factions withinn their party they have to develop very complex legislation, and that level of complexity causes the bill to cost a really really really lot of money. The fact I don't think the money was well spend really doesn't matter, it was spent, it hasn't accomplished a whole lot, and more will follow it.
I am a big fan of EASY! The KISS principle is one of my favorites, and even as an engineer I look for easy as opposed to complex. Why the push for single payer? Whay the push for a takeover? That was purely ideological and had no basis in the current political reality. I looked and looked for a reason to try something so obviously doomed from the start, I looked at the various angles that could be taken to achieve some hidden agenda, I tried to understand what they hoped to accomplish when the Senate was on record as against it. What I discovered was there was no conspiracy, it had to be that big to satisfy the rank and file in the house. There was a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and a lot of money to sweeten the stew. Then I looked at the Senate plan and didn't see anything in it that would satisfy the house, the Republicans or the American citizens. Hell, the fact that reid bought votes so publicly has convinced me that he never wanted this bill to get passed, but he to forward something to use as a basis for discussion, then when Brown got elected you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief on the left.
The left is more liable to spend lots of money than the right used to be before Bush. My guess is that the right has learned their leson and will again become fiscal conservatives. The Dems cannot do that. They have no history of fiscal restraint and their base instinct is to include everybody in everything and complain when everybody doesn't want to be included. Their party is far more fractured than the Reps, they have far more political ideologies to baby sit, far more feeling to hurt and fix. Let's face it, your internal problems have the potential to be far more interesting than the Reps. But, when you guys succeed in getting your act together you are a force of nature. I am just glad it doesn't happen very often or for a very long time when it does happen.
