Posted under Health Care & Ron Paul
Some may very well lament the Senate’s cloture vote on health care reform over the weekend as the coming of socialism. I simply shrug my shoulders and say what else is new? One can debate health care reform from a Constutional perspective but one cannot say we’ve broken new ground. We’re on the same path we’ve been on since 1933.
Oh well. But there is good news coming out of Washington last weekend and that came when the Paul-Grayson Audit the Fed passed through committee an fended off the attempts of the Fed and the Big Banks’ stooges on the House Banking Committee, particularly Barney Frank and Mel Watt, from gutting it. The bill still has a long way to go but it was an important hurdle to get over and it shows the appeal of the populistic thrust against the evil Fed both members of both parties. Glenn Greenwald has a nice article about this in Salon.com.
The opposition to health care reform flops uselessly because its based more on political calculation rather than on principal, which leaves the GOP at as disadvantage because they are a minority and have nothing to sell when the Harry Reid Market opens on the Senate floor and the deals are cut to pass the bill. Meanwhile, Audit the Fed is plowing ahead because, even though it is controversial and the powers that be are against it, it has support broad enough to pass.
