December 23, 2009

A Christmas Insult? Or Just a Lump of Coal?

By Christopher Chantrill
Some people think that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is insulting Christians with his plan to make the United States Senate work right up to Christmas Eve on his health reform bill.Maybe so.  But it seems more likely that he just wants to make sure that every American gets a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. Because that's what his Bill of Abominations amounts to.At the Weekly Standard, Jeffrey H. Anderson reckons that the Reid bill costs about $2.5 trillion over the first ten years. It will award a $1-trillion subsidy to the insurance industry over that period. We are talking here about the real first ten years of the bill, from 2014-2023, not the budget-gimmick 2010-2019 period preferred by Sen. Reid and the Democrats.The joke is, of course, that after all the months of legislative sausage-making, the netroots have suddenly decided that they have been sold out. They were just fine with forcing the American people to stand in line at ObamaCare's DMV, or whatever humiliations...(Read Full Article)