The Occasional Observer

Well, our old friend "soak the rich" is back in vogue. Creating an irresponsible, poorly thought-out, rush job of a health plan and can't figure out where to pay for it? Soak the rich.

Putting a bloated, ineffective, falsely-named "stimulus" plan into place and can't find the funds to cover it? Soak the rich.

Except for one problem: it doesn't work.

I also love our new style democracy. Apparently I misunderstood the word bipartisanship and the phrase "reach across the aisle" during the Obama campaign. Apparently they mean willfully ram legislation through in a purely partisan fashion. After all, as Mr. Axelrod says:

“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.”

I've always considered that whole "process" thing of democracy and checks and balances overrated anyway.