Windmills and Health Care Reform
The Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia, along with Scott Brown taking over Ted Kennedy’s seat in the U.S. Senate have sprouted all kinds of suppositions, ” I told yous” and even a bit of a reshuttle at the White House.
There is no doubt that the Democrats have screwed up on many fronts. Having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate should have given them the opportunity to take care of many, long-overdue issues, but considering the fact that too many of them – Christopher Dodd comes to mind among others – were really taking care of somebody else’s business, things simply didn’t get done and the American electorate, including a whole slew of liberal Democrats felt downright betrayed.
There is the definite possibility that the Obama voters were really under the impression that the movement created around the candidate actually represented the man. Surprisingly, the man was and is different from what the voters imagined him to be. Just look at the bailouts of the messed up financial mills, which were ostensibly “too big to fail”. Now the biggies are paying multi-million-dollar bonuses, possible only because of the taxpayer-funded bailout.
Let’s not forget that in 2009 the U.S. has reportedly printed more money than in the entire 20th century…successfully bailing out the Wall Street shysters, called by some bonus-happy executives “their best people”. Wouldn’t these “best people” be more appropriately employed producing our license plates for the next 20 years in some federal penitentiary?
In any case, practically exit Tim Geithner and finally re-enter Paul Volcker, who seems to have saner ideas. We also welcome the return of David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager. As expected Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod says that there is no major White House shakeup in the works. Why not, we wonder?
In closing, enjoy another excellent cartoon by Washington Post’s Tom Toles. If one picture is worth 1,000 words, these two combined must be worth quite a bit more 
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I understand Progressives and Independents losing faith in Obama after the bailouts, but how the hell did a fight against Health Insurance giants become a battle against Freedom? Hopefully, with the new team, there will be a better-informed public.
The fight against the health insurance industry probably has become “a fight against freedom”, because the conservative pundits, most of whom are firmly embedded in the industry’s pockets kept rousing the rabble along those lines.
It is truly amazing that we have so many gullible people in this country…
As far as Obama is concerned, it probably would have been easier and more effective if he took up the fight to reform health care in his second year, after (hopefully) improving the economy a bit and after managing to recover some of the lost jobs.
Let’s not forget that the collectivized effort in Animal Farm was to build a windmill.
Harrison, looks like the animals in the financial and health care industries have succeeded in building their windmills after all.
The problem seems to relate to taking them down…
No, if it were like Animal Farm they never would have been erected in the first place.
Harrison, the denizens of Animal Farm seemed in some ways smarter the the Wall Street “smart guys”.