More Bad Faith Arguments

Once again, the Republican idea of bi-partisan negotiations on health care reform legislation is having the GOP senators doing the negotiating to tell America that health care reform legislation has already failed because Republicans in the minority haven't gotten 100% of what they wanted.

Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), one of the three Republican negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee, said in the GOP weekly address that bills introduced by Democrats "fail" to lower health care costs and will "raid Medicare."

"We need reforms that will actually lower health care costs for working Americans and we need to make sure we do not increase the deficit and add to the record debt we're already passing on to our children and grandchildren," Enzi said. "The bills introduced by Congressional Democrats fail to meet these standards."

The bill fails to meet President Mike Enzi's standards of a 100% Republican plan, ergo he can't in good conscience vote for it, support it, or even allow it to come up for a vote. I'm so glad that America voted for President Mike Enzi last year, aren't you?

[UPDATE 4:10 PM] Apparently the White House noticed that Enzi spent his entire weekly Republican address on bashing the health care plan he's supposed to be negotiating and may actually no longer consider him to be part of the "Gang of Six".



About damn time. Now chuck the other two and get back to work, guys.