An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Better to Step BACK!
Step by Step
Incremental improvements are better than comprehensive reforms.
By Lamar Alexander
What are Republicans for?
Tough question. I can tell you what conservatives are for, well, at least THIS conservative. But Republicans. Most of ‘em don’t even have a clue themselves, so that would be almost impossible to answer.
For the Democratic senators who kept asking this question during the health-care debate, the only answer was for Mitch McConnell to roll a wheelbarrow onto the Senate floor with an alternative 2,700-page, comprehensive Republican health-care bill. Or a 1,200-page Republican climate-change bill. Or a 900-page Republican immigration bill. But people expecting that kind of an answer will be waiting a long time.
No bill, from any side, ever needs to weigh a ton. The weight of worry and disillusionment put upon us by these absurd bills need to see the shredder….and quick!
On health care, clean energy, debt reduction, and immigration, Republicans have been offering an alternative to thousand-page bills: going step-by-step in the right direction to solve problems in a way that re-earns the trust of the American people.
Step by step? There are problems that Congress has created, and yet they believe they can solve them? Give me a break!
The Democrats’ comprehensive immigration, climate-change, and health-care bills have been well-intended, but the first two collapsed under their own weight, and health care, if it doesn’t do the same, will be a historic mistake for the country and a political kamikaze mission for Democrats.
What has united most Republicans against these three bills has been not only ideology, but also that they were comprehensive. As George Will might write: The. Congress. Does. Not. Do. Comprehensive. Well.
A truer statement has never been uttered. I rarely agree with Senator Alexander. From what I’ve garnered, I actually disagree with him about 64% of the time. I don’t see him as a conservative in any shape or form. RINO would be more descriptive. My advice to the good Senator from Tennessee would be to work hard to get the government out of the way of We, The People. We are quite capable of saving ourselves, and do not need government intervention. Thank you ever so much.
