{"id":16233,"date":"2009-12-20T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2009-12-20T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T22:07:11","slug":"biden-in-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16233","title":{"rendered":"Biden in the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe “Mad Bomber” Biden, who has been consistently wrong on every piece of legislation for which he ever voted while he occupied his dunce seat in the Senate, tries to convince his former fellows to vote for the dubious health care bill before them this week from the pages of the New York Times<\/a>. His reason? What else – it’s historic;<\/p>\n

If I were still a United States senator, I would not only vote yes on the current health care reform bill, I would do so with the sure knowledge that I was casting one of the most historic votes of my 36 years in the Senate. I would vote yes knowing that the bill represents the culmination of a struggle begun by Theodore Roosevelt nearly a century ago to make health care reform a reality. And while it does not contain every measure President Obama and I wanted, I would vote yes for this bill certain that it includes the fundamental, essential change that opponents of reform have resisted for generations.<\/p>\n

We have been here before. In the past, as the moment of decision drew nearer, criticism from both the left and the right grew louder. Compromises were derided. The perfect became the enemy of the good. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The last time we, the American people, were told to cast our vote because something was merely historic, we got bumbling Obama. Sure he wasn’t perfect, but he was black and that’d be historic, wouldn’t it? Well, he’s not really black, he even lacks perfection in that regard, but he’s black enough to make it historic, isn’t he?<\/p>\n

While it is not perfect, the bill pending in the Senate today is not just good enough \u2014 it is very good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just like our vote for Obama was very good at the time, and we’ve come to regret it since. Joe figures as long as he told those whoppers, he might as well shoot the moon;<\/p>\n

President Obama and I know we have to put our fiscal house in order. This is why those who claim they oppose reform because they fear for our country\u2019s fiscal stability should finally acknowledge what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office makes crystal clear: not only is the Senate bill paid for, it is this country\u2019s single largest deficit-reduction measure in a dozen years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After all, it’s only taxpayer money – what do those schlubs know?<\/p>\n

If the bill passes the Senate this week, there will be more chances to make changes to it before it becomes law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there you have it. No matter what those goobers in the Senate for this week, it won’t be the same when it finally makes it to the Federal Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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