By Douglas V. Gibbs
The ship is going down, and the rats are jumping ship.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden recognizes the travesty that is Obamacare, and he has determined for his own political safety not to run on the idiotic health care law, even though he voted for it.
Wyden sent a letter to Oregon health authority director Bruce Goldberg, encouraging the state to seek a waiver from certain Obamacare rules so it can "come up with innovative solutions that the Federal government has never had the flexibility or will to implement."
A provision of Obamacare allows states to opt out of the "requirement that individuals purchase health insurance," Mr. Wyden wrote, and "Because you and I believe that the heart of real health reform is affordability and not mandates, I wanted to bring this feature of Section 1332 to the attention of you and the legislature."
Well, since Wyden is a Democrat, the fact that the federal government mandating to anyone they must purchase something is unconstitutional didn't cross his mind. But hey, he's a Democrat. Just the fact he is jumping ship is an accomplishment. Rehabilitation does occur in steps.
An interesting side note of this story is that Wyden is considered as being one of the Democratic Party's leading experts on health care. . . yet he wants his state to dump the individual mandate that is among Obamacare's core features. Wyden once championed an individual mandate in the bill he sponsored with Utah Republican Bob Bennett.
Wyden's move is an important political signal that may encourage other Democrats to do the same.
Of course, Wyden is still a Democrat, and his motives have nothing to do with doing the right thing. He is abandoning Obama, and his health care monstrosity, for the sole reason of the election - to hold on to his power.
Well, so much for the liberal belief that once the health care law was passed everyone would love it.
Wow, isn't that interesting? The Democrats championed this newly passed health care entitlement, and they figured (as they believe to be the case in past entitlements) that once an entitlement passes, however unpopular at the time, voters and business will grow to like it and then Republicans begin to come around (which is false, it is just that the GOP realizes it cannot be stricken quickly, and must be reformed and eliminated incrementally). Yet, with this health care legislation, the unpopularity of it is so severe, that the rats of the Democrat Party are running away from it as fast as they can.
Hey, Obama, your cronies are treating you like a dog!
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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