There is blood in the water - Democrats are hesitating, the healthcare reform express has stalled just out of the station, and bloggers on both sides of the fence are circling.
“The news from pollsters and constituents look pretty bad for Democrats looking towards a midterm election in the middle of a deep recession and escalating unemployment,” says Hot Air blogger Ed Morrissey.
Dan Riehl’s Riehl World View heaped scorn on the democrats:
What’s more costly, that our Democrat government is inept, or health care reform? Unfortunately, they are one and the same. Already behind schedule, they’ve suddenly realized they may actually have to figure out how to pay for it. I realize that’s all but unheard of in Washington these days, but geesh. If they think they are going to change everyone in America’s health care and a huge portion of the nation’s GDP with some last minute, too important to read BS, they are going to be thrown out in droves come 2010. Unfortunately, for the Democrat majority, at least, that may already be inevitable. Still, they are intent on making it worse. I won’t be sorry to see them go.
Punk Patriot’s rant on why we have to “watch what’s happening on the Hill” took aim at the Democrats’ “corporate welfare” healthcare reform measures as well as Republican fears of socialism on Dandelion Salad.
Josh Greenman, writing in the New York Daily News opinion section, takes Obama to task for not providing enough detail - the president’s pledge to let Congress develop a consensus.
“This is like a car salesman who tells you everything that’s wrong with the clunker you currently drive without letting you take the vehicle he’s trying to sell you around the block for a spin.
“But why trade up when you may wind up with a broken-down jalopy, especially when it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg up-front?”
Tags: Barack Obama, Dan Riehl, Ed Morrissey, health care, healthcare, healthcare reform, Hot Air, Josh Greenman, New York Daily News, public-option, Punk Patriot, Riehl World View
