Victory Laps

Glenn Thrush notes that today Rick Scott, one of the architects behind the effort to kill Obamacare, is taking his victory laps early.

Thanks to a collective effort by a loose knit coalition of free market health care advocates, conservative grassroots groups, and some reasonable-minded elected officials, I am very confident, after meetings on the Hill this week, that if Congress does not pass a health care bill with the public option before Labor Day, the public option is dead. While Victory is near, we must not rest.

Earlier today, Senate Majority Harry Reid acknowledged that there would be no health care vote in the Senate until the fall. Still, liberal, pro-government health care advocates are intensifying their campaigns and increasing the decibel level of their rhetoric to demonize elected officials who are rightly opposed to the public option and a government take-over of health care. We must meet them head on and continue with ads, news events (particularly in the grassroots), media appearances, etc, to finish off the public option, which is no option at all as it would be devastating to patients, our economy and our health care system.

Victory in the battle to save our precious insurance companies and nubile, tender young millionaires from the depredations of the liberals trying to provide health care for filthy poor people is at hand! (High-fives and pinot grigio all around!)

Truly, America will remember us for the day we killed universal health care and saved millions of dollars in insurance company profit bonuses! Civilized countries have a health care industry with profit margins. If the proles get health care, they may want other things like representation, civil liberties and Two for Tuesdays at Pizza Hut.

What a horrific place that America would be.