Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Are Democrats Really the New Republicans?

I didn't want to believe Bill Maher when he offered as a "new rule" that "Democrats are the new Republicans." But reading the votes against the health reform public option in the Senate Finance Committee, it's now difficult to argue with Maher's insight several months ago.

My understanding is that corporate lobbyists are collectively spending $1.4 million a day to get this result. Yet, as the late California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, a Democrat, reputedly said, "If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women and still vote against them, you have no business being up here."

If a Democratic president, with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, cannot pass even the timid, tip-toe "public option" reform, it's clear that the Democrats no longer deserve the support of liberals or progressives. Hell, they don't belong in politics.

We need a second political party.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

My father, who was the sole Democrat in a Republican town, once ran for local office because he believed strongly in the two-party system. See how far we have fallen! Now we're down to one.


Margaret

Taradharma said...

Michael Moore said it succinctly: I'm tired of hearing democrats whine. We have the White House, the House and the Senate. Grow some balls!