Okay, so today is the big day.
Sometime this afternoon, the House will finally vote on health care legislation — again. The vote may likely take place during the airing of the NCAA games this afternoon.
Which will you be watching?
Way back, during the Presidential primary season, candidate Obama outlined his vision for health care reform. After all that has been said during the two years since, I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t recall that candidates Clinton and McCain also promised to take on health care reform during their campaigns.
A lot has happened since then.
Obama won the election and shortly thereafter began the work he had promised to undertake – reform of the health care system. This was a monstrous effort, to be sure, and predictably, the process employed for getting to here from there has been a disjointed affair. The Senate has proven themselves to be dysfunctional, at best.
The House, to their credit, has performed yeoman’s work in actually passing many Bills which now lay idly in the Senate’s queue.
We can all voice disagreements about the content of legislation, but the logjam in the Senate serves no useful purpose. The country cannot wait until the next election or the one after that for the Senate to take action. Decisions should not be deferred indefinitely.
But today is not about the Senate. Cue the House.
Decision time has finally arrived.
NY Times - Democrats to Watch on the Health Care Vote
According to the NY Times, and as of this writing, on the morning of the day of the vote, eighteen House Democrats have not yet announced whether they will vote Yea or Nay – including my representative in district PA-11, Congressman Paul Kanjorski.
Are they kidding me?
As with Hamlet’s indecision: “To be or not to be”, these eighteen ponder their choice as the country waits and wonders.
Are they so averse to decision-making that they cannot select from the only two choices that are available to them? Really? After all that has happened?
The Democratic Party has demonstrated that they are indecisive, disjointed, and unable to use their majority position to effect change. They can do something about that today.
Half of these eighteen votes are required to pass the Bill. If just nine of these eighteen legislators can find it in themselves to vote “Yes” they will be doing something that is good for America and good for all Americans.
Is that asking too much?
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