"Fundamental Transformation Of America" Starts With Health Care Bill

You've been forewarned:

If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. "My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive," Pelosi said, according to an account by Washington Post reform advocate Ezra Klein. "We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow."

But since the current bill is unpopular, and Pelosi at the moment does not have enough Democratic, much less Republican, votes to pass it, the door she will be kicking through is the back door.

In a particularly Alice-in-Wonderland moment, Pelosi argued that the debate over health care reform can begin after the bill is passed. "Pelosi said passing the bill would allow Dems to undertake a 'debate' with Republicans over 'what is the balanced role that government should have,'" writes another pro-reform blogger at the Post, Greg Sargent. According to Sargent, Pelosi explained, "We have to take it to the American people, to say, this is the choice that you have. This is the vision that they have for your health and well being, and this is the vision that we have." Again, in Pelosi's scenario, that debate would occur after the bill is passed. [Washington Examiner]

What doors might they kick through next?  Remember, you've been forewarned.

Comments

[Mr. Scott Ryan]

Hence my distinction between the progressive citizen and the progressive politician; I am a 49% fan of the former and a 0% fan of the ladder.

[AngelaTC]

She's absolutely right. The GOP has never dismantled their programs, so there's no good reason to think they would start now.

[Mike Moreland]

Instead of a 'kicking the door in' moment, we need to have an ass kicking moment in November with the socialists, better known as the Democrats.

We can start with the local court houses and the legislatures.