It sad actually. It is no surprise to our readers that we are not avid supporters of the current HCR plan as it now exists. That being said, there remain serious issues with healthcare and a public in support of reform as Mr. Obama inherited in March of 2008 has soured to the point where the concept is essentially revulsive. Making this all so much for sad is that the focus has been shifting slowly away from the actual reform debate in the Senate and instead on to Harry Reid. And for nothing good to boot. As we have chronicled here, and others have elsewhere, it seems as if our erstwhile Majority Leader is either senile, insane or just engaging in some sort of political strategy that no one can gain any insight into. Everytime he speaks, the prospects for HCR get worse, and more and more people worry about him.

In todays Washington Post, Dana Milbank really laid it out for all of us. The article is worthy of a read. We aere left scratching our heads at the whole mess. HCR is a bomb and it fails to give any sense that the authors understand anything about healthcare, let alone reform (see here for a really great review of this). The Senate appears as if it is bordering on dysfunctional. Far from being the proverbial “saucer”, it is of late been naked in its politics and seems more like the body that passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 than the one that gave us The VRA in the 1960’s. Each day some fool or another is muttering something about ‘making history’ or ‘historic’ or ‘once in a generation’. For example; here or here or this video clip:

Reid: We Are On The Doorstep of Delivering Historic Reform

Or this one:

Or this one:

My Lord, what do they think they are doing? And their leader, the simple man from Nevada, Mr. Harry Reid. Oh my.