An American Lion

I don’t think Howard Dean and Russ Feingold should expect a Christmas Card from Rahm Emmanuel:

The administration is to blame for the public option’s exclusion from healthcare legislation, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Monday.

“Yes,” Dean flatly answered during an appearance on MSNBC when asked if the Obama administration was culpable for losing the public option.

Democratic leaders in the Senate removed the provision from their healthcare bill in a concession to win centrist Democrats’ votes.

But liberal activists and even Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) have begun to focus blame on President Barack Obama, faulting him for never having thrown the full weight of the White House behind the controversial insurance option.

“I’ve been fighting all year for a strong public option to compete with the insurance industry and bring healthcare spending down,” Feingold said Sunday in a statement. “Unfortunately, the lack of support from the administration made keeping the public option in the bill an uphill struggle.”

Dean has been locked in a public scrum with the Obama administration since calling earlier this month for senators to kill the healthcare bill without the public option or a plan allowing people ages 55-64 to buy into Medicare.

Below that same article, some wag commented:

Dean is wrong, this is a great program. People of my class will make billions when the peasants are required to pay us for health care we will never deliver. Most of the peasants who don’t have health care can’t afford to pay the deductibles, so will never use the plans they are forced to buy or be fined. My class is deserving of all this, having inherited from robber barons because of our superior genes. And those who worry that the working poor may no longer have enough to eat if they are forced into this, my wife Marie has it all figured out, “If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.” Amen I say

 

 BY Louis XIV on 12/21/2009 at 14:50