holding steady.™

the house just passed health care.

that’s all i got. this shit was down to the wire, like that Xavier-Pitt game, or the Purdue-Texas A&M game.

this sunday has been just FULL of close (or, more appropriately, seemingly close) calls.

update: i like ed schultz. “the strategy of the republicans is going to be remembered for years to come on…it was Jim DeMint who said that “if we can break him”-to use that type of terminology-saying that “this is his Waterloo”….well there is going to be no Waterloo, there’s going to be health care reform in this country.”

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another great one from squashed

here’s a link to the post in full, but i’ve reproduced my favorite part of what could otherwise be interpreted as a dismal and disappointed outlook on what’s happening with health care right now.

The part I don’t get is why a watered-down healthcare bill would supposedly make Obama a one-term President. I see a bigger political threat in delaying the healthcare bill. Here’s the timeline I would predict.

October 2009 – Something called healthcare reform is signed into law.

November-December 2009 – Fox News talks about the uncontrolled spending.

January 2009 – The implementation hits some inevitable snags. Fox calls this a collapse of the entire system and pronounces the bill a failure. The other news agencies start callng the system “troubled.”

February 2009 – The media forgets about the snag. Things go back to normal.

2010 – People start getting health insurance who weren’t eligible before. Good stories start emerging.

Mid-2011, the bill will be in full effect. Most of the little kinks will be ironed out. The economy will be improving. Everybody will be happy.

2012 – Obama will have wrapped up the war in Iraq, done something about Afghanistan (I hope), turned the economy around, and fixed healthcare for millions of people. None of the horror stories will have come to pass. Obama is reelected.