http://bellagerens.com/2010/01/20/hmm-2/ inde vides agilem bella gerentem Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://bellagerens.com/2010/01/20/hmm-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1488 CC Truckston Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:02:45 +0000 http://bellagerens.com/?p=903#comment-1488 The election of Scott Brown, while a great embarrasment to Obama and the Democrat majority in Congress, ultimately will turn out not to be the sea change that Republicans are gleefully predicting. The people in Massachusetts didn't like the healthcare bill because the state already has a healthcare system, and the cost of the proposed national plan would result in state residents paying for the state plan as well as the national plan. Like for other Americans, premium cost reduction is the top healthcare priority, not expanded coverage. Obama and Congress put disasterously expsensive expanded coverage as the top priority. Most of those who voted for Brown cited government spending as the big bugaboo, and of that, healthcare is only one element. Most of the voters in Massachusetts still are liberal, but concerned with government debt, as they were during the Clinton administration. By November, most Americans--the collective attention span of whom is about 2 days--will have long forgotten Scott Brown. If the Republicans in November still are counting on the impact of the Massachusetts senate election to throw the Democrats out of Congress, they could be greatly surprised. Not that it matters, because the self-serving Republicans are no better than the self-serving Democrats. It's time for a revolution. The election of Scott Brown, while a great embarrasment to Obama and the Democrat majority in Congress, ultimately will turn out not to be the sea change that Republicans are gleefully predicting. The people in Massachusetts didn’t like the healthcare bill because the state already has a healthcare system, and the cost of the proposed national plan would result in state residents paying for the state plan as well as the national plan. Like for other Americans, premium cost reduction is the top healthcare priority, not expanded coverage. Obama and Congress put disasterously expsensive expanded coverage as the top priority. Most of those who voted for Brown cited government spending as the big bugaboo, and of that, healthcare is only one element. Most of the voters in Massachusetts still are liberal, but concerned with government debt, as they were during the Clinton administration. By November, most Americans–the collective attention span of whom is about 2 days–will have long forgotten Scott Brown. If the Republicans in November still are counting on the impact of the Massachusetts senate election to throw the Democrats out of Congress, they could be greatly surprised. Not that it matters, because the self-serving Republicans are no better than the self-serving Democrats. It’s time for a revolution.

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