Grudge Spectacle
By CHARLES M. BLOW, NYT
The Obamacare hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Committee are a grudge spectacle.
They aren’t about fixing problems but affixing blame. They want to make the problems with HealthCare.gov into a problem with “government health care.”
These hearings are a charade and a sham. They are devoid of equanimity and reek of vengeance. This is not the way to win an argument, only to elevate the screeching.
And Republicans did themselves no favors on Wednesday with their rough handling of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. At one point during the hearing, Sebelius could be heard saying: “Don’t do this to me.”
Sebelius was proxy for the president and they unleashed on her all they had. The secretary’s taking responsibility for the website debacle, as she called it, could have added to public unease about the government’s ability to manage such an enormous undertaking. But the hearing quickly became a mockery of itself, with congressmen underlining the bully in bully pulpit. Committee Republicans lost a chance to rise above, and stooped to their lowest.
(More here.)
The Obamacare hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Committee are a grudge spectacle.
They aren’t about fixing problems but affixing blame. They want to make the problems with HealthCare.gov into a problem with “government health care.”
These hearings are a charade and a sham. They are devoid of equanimity and reek of vengeance. This is not the way to win an argument, only to elevate the screeching.
And Republicans did themselves no favors on Wednesday with their rough handling of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. At one point during the hearing, Sebelius could be heard saying: “Don’t do this to me.”
Sebelius was proxy for the president and they unleashed on her all they had. The secretary’s taking responsibility for the website debacle, as she called it, could have added to public unease about the government’s ability to manage such an enormous undertaking. But the hearing quickly became a mockery of itself, with congressmen underlining the bully in bully pulpit. Committee Republicans lost a chance to rise above, and stooped to their lowest.
(More here.)
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I think the American public should be the ones to exclaim, "Don't do this to me." There is not enough sand in the cat box to bury Obamacare.
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