to put under government control.
“Everybody in America knows our current health care system is broke, it is dysfunctional, it is cruel … by far the most expensive health care system in the world.”
Bernie Sanders said that. Them’s his own words, delivered on the floor of the Senate Monday 11-10-25. Fifteen years after a Democrat signed “ObamaCare” into law. That is what 40 Days and 40 Nights of the Schumer Shutdown was all about. Bailing out the Democrats’ broke, dysfunctional, and cruel health care system. Price tag: $60 billion over a biennium.
And taking on Trump’s Republicans. Democrats were willing to strand grandma at the airport and take the Thanksgiving turkey off the table. Showing partisan fight was more important than good governance.
“What Senate Dems who voted for this horse sh🔥 deal did was f🔥 over all the hard work people put in to Tuesday’s elections.” — Mark Pocan, D-Hamas, on X (Twitter)
→ “Liberal fury over shutdown deal convulses Democrats”
Don’t replace ObamaCare with something better, don’t fix it, just bail it out and look tough doing it. Congress could have been debating Sen. Bill Cassidy’s health insurance plan these last 40 days instead of refusing to pay the rent. The Republican senator from Louisiana, a medical doctor, says ObamaCare funnels billions of taxpayer dollars to giant insurance companies with no incentive to lower premiums. He wants to redirect these resources to smart shoppers, instead, through flexible accounts.
But consumer-directed health care renders the party of Big Gummint less essential. Maybe eligible for a (cough) furlough?
Defend the welfare state
The Nation magazine hit upon the gravamen of the progressive agenda: the existential threat to the culture of dependency. Voters, especially in NYC, “were sick of Donald Trump, sick of the Republican Party’s attacks on what remains of the American welfare state.” Flush with victory, New York City’s socialist-elect vowed:
”We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” — Zohran Mamdani
Blaska’s Bottom Line: More government is the answer? The feds are $38.12 trillion in debt! No concern is too small for government? The Head Groundskeeper finds that frightening. Has no one read Friedrich Hayek? Face it, the shutdown was all about the Democrat(ic) party showing FIGHT, not enacting sound policy.
5 responses to “Nothing is too big or small for progressives”
Agree 100%, very much like the government spigot on full blast for student loans was taken advantage of by the universities.
People are waking up to our dysfunctional healthcare system and they are mad as hell. The entire industry is ripe for disruption. Mark Cuban is one of the people leading the way.
“Road to Serfdom” is on my bookshelf but first I’m rereading Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose”.
Free to Choose made me a Republican.
Here come the Epstein files. Hang on to your Maga hat.
Anything that makes that venomous little toad Pocan lose his s**t –or smear it all over X–is fine by me. Now it’s time to pull up the La-Z-boy to the teevee, tear open an extra-large bag of chips, and watch the Democrat bloodbath begin; their hypocrisy and incompetence were on full display for 40+ days, now we get treated to their richly deserved humiliation. The wails of anguish should be loud enough to drown out all the crowing they did over winning a couple of elections that were shoo-ins for Democrats anyway.
the Democrats got a good swift kick in the behind when the finding bill passed with help from some moderate Dems.