Doug Yarbrough posted on November 19, 2009 00:00
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In yet another slap to the face of those whose views are so absurd that no politician can honestly represent them and get actually elected to an actual office, the House of so called “Representatives” passed its version of the healthcare reform bill last week.
Insult is sure to follow this injury, as the Senate will almost certainly follow suit and pass its bill sooner than later. Then, after a little reconciliation action between the two bills, active terrorist sleeper cell Barack Obama will almost certainly thumb his nose at the Real American minority and historically sign this history making bill into history making law.
All the provisions of the bill will not be effective immediately, and there’s a lot of
speculation about how that will affect the mood of the electorate in 2010 and 2012. This doesn’t mean your Grandmothers will be allowed to live that long, of course. They will almost certainly be seized into government custody moments after the bill becomes law, whereupon they will be teabagged on film by militant Islamic soldiers, hand picked by President Obama, for viewing on the Presidents weekly YouTube address before being executed by gay French abortion doctors. This is known as “the public option”.
The parts of the bill that outlaw denial of coverage due to pre-existing conditions and those that ban rescission, the canceling of benefits to mitigate financial exposure, will take effect far sooner than the portions of the bill that mandate coverage of employees by small business owners. The latter is set to take effect in 2013 in order to give the small business owner time to adjust practices to ensure compliance. That is, assuming things don’t go like this hilarious “blogger” has predicted, which they won’t. I wish Ron Hardin were a blogger. Anything to shorten that hacks’ comments would be nice. But I digress.
So as we move forward, I think it’s safe to say that some form of this thing is all but bound to make it through to the Presidents pen. The first hurdle is the big one, and that one has been cleared. It’s easy for even the most cynical lawmaker to see at this point that this is something that is possible, and that makes it infinitely easier to entertain.
As for the effect it will have on the election? Well, what can I say? One thing is for sure, conservatives may hate Republicans like Bush, but it’s no stretch to deduce that they hate Democrats more. And without having to stomach voting for a senior citizen and cancer survivor, seconded by a highly sectarian small town ignoramus, they may actually leave the house to vote next year. It’s also no secret that disenchantment of a certain portion of the swing vote is virtually unavoidable after a turnover of the dramatic proportions we saw in ’06 and ’08. So we may see some gains for republicans next year, and the requisite silliness from the Right that is sure to accompany it. And with it we are sure to hear a lot of “I told you so-ing” but that won’t fool anyone with sense enough to wash the Cheetos powder off their hands before they touch themselves. The truth is, although it will be framed as a consequence of Healthcare Policy and other Administration Evils, the fact that the Democrats are facing losses in ’10 is not news. Nor is it as devastating a development as wingnuts will posit.