What the Health Care Bill Says About the Democrats

The health care bill is headed back to the House for another vote in order to approve the Senate fixes. Since the House passed the bill a few days ago, Senate Republicans have offered numerous amendments in order to dispose of the bill. Knowing that the bill would not be disposed of, Republicans then offered amendments to fix many of the bill’s glaring flaws. Democrats are doing exactly what they have blasted Republicans for doing, they are attempting to vote against all Republican amendments in improve the bill.

What reason do the Senate Democrats have for voting down the Republican amendments that intend to strengthen the bill now that the Senate Parliamentarian agreed with Republicans on two issues, thus sending it back to the House regardless if the other amendments were passed? The simple answer is that Democrats had no good reason. The only thing bipartisan about this bill is the bipartisan opposition in both chambers of Congress. There is absolutely no logical reason to explain why Senate Democrats opposed an amendment to prohibit sex offenders from purchasing drugs such as Viagra. It can be said that Republicans are proposing these amendments to make the Democrats look bad for the 2010 elections, but they hardly need to.

It has been the Republicans that have been pushing for bipartisanship, but Democrats are obviously content on pushing through their own ultra liberal agenda. The Democrats are  the actual “party of no”: they have continuously said no to bipartisanship, job creation, and most importantly, the American people.