Only Four Days to Go
Well, It’s about time I start saying goodbye to my current surroundings and get used to the idea that I’m going to be living about 500 miles away from little old Muskegon. I checked my watch (because it severs as my clock, calender, and general reminder of where I am in time and space) and realized that my internal clock had been off by a day.
Instead of having 5 days to go… I only have 4.
That’s always a sobering experience…
Today, my fiance and I are having a going-away party and I’m going to be staying at my house packing all of my things from here on out. So, with that in mind, I’m going to do my best to keep up with my “word of the day” and try to keep on posting at least once a day… so, having said that, I heard something else regarding the public option and the White House.
It appears that, today, the White House has signaled that it’s ready to abandon the public option to save the rest of the
bill. This has, like everything else political, good and bad consequences.
The good is that the bill is, now, much more likely to pass through the senate and will place staggering new regulations on the insurance industry. Much of the opposition to the bill had been to the public option… but, without it, it looks like a healthy amount of opposition will die and the bill will pass.
The bad is that extreme liberals and progressives are going to be upset with a bill that doesn’t offer some kind of universal option. They claim that we are the only developed nation in the world without a single payer system and we should do our best to follow the global example. The truth is, there are many people who are going to turn away from Obama if he allows anything less than a public option to pass.
The truth is, trying to ride the middle line on this health care bill is going to cost Obama the support of his voters.
…That is what our politics have become. If you try to compromise… you lose your voting bases.
To see how deep this partisanship has become, check out this article and this article on partisanship in the United States. Also, check out this movie.
Finally, here’s some ideas of what posts are to come:
-I’m going to do one about pollution and global warming (thanks Cameron)
and
-I’m going to do one about special interests and the kind of money being spent to buy our politicians
To keep up on when I make a new post (since I probably wont do a full post every day anymore… now that college is starting) ask me to be a friend on facebook (ask for Corey Swanson) and follow me on twitter (diplopia7 or Corey Swanson).
That’s all I’ve got for today.
Thanks,
Corey
