Meta-victory

Lot of interesting pro-con comments re Taibbi's question as to whether the "health-care" "reform" "effort" really does suck as badly as he, Taibbi, thinks it does. Well, if anything, it probably sucks even worse than we think it will, if the rest of the usual product out of the cracker factory is any indication.

And yet, it is probably just as critical as the Democrats think it is that this abusive sellout actually gets passed -- at least from their POV, which they have done every blessed thing they can think to render utterly irrelevant. Probably the truest comment is way down there, simply stating that whether or not this thing passes now, the Dems are going to take a hit in November.

And it's their own goddamned fault, per usual, since they let Rahmbo wheel-deal them into the back pockets of card-carrying assholes like Max Baucus and Ben Nelson. But only after Obama let the insurance and pharma lobbies write the thing in the first place. Yeah, that's visionary planning there, Chief. Could it be that Obama's vision is nearly as overrated as the Rahm's arm-twisting ability? Ya think?

They've shot their wad on this thing, and now cannot afford to walk it back, especially since they don't have the balls to fight for anything substantial in the first place. But the thought of the mouth-breathers on the other side becoming even more emboldened could only mean they'd find someone even dumber and more useless than Fredo to lead their next ticket, probably even more toxic and ridiculous than the sideshow carnies like Palin or Beck.

And yet "victory" will be meaningless in any real sense, merely a front-loading of tax dollars to a mandatory insurance policy, just another vast upward wealth transfer, a subsidized captive market with no mention of the driving issue, exorbitant costs. The costs will be the same and the profits will go to the same rentiers, it's just that the scheme will be socialized. Awesome.

As always, the system isn't broken -- it's fixed.