There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply
Oh just remember I don't decide
I got no reason it's all too much
You'll always find us out to lunch
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
We're vacant
Oh we're so pretty
Oh so pretty
A-vacant...
Zeitgeist-dodging somnambulist Harry Reid has announced that the Senate is going ahead with their traditional August vacation before voting on health care reform. During their month-long fun in the sun, more than 400,000 additional Americans will lose their health coverage.
Everybody out of the pool!
From the Center for American Progress:
Even when the economy was growing, 46 million people in America did not have any health insurance. Since the recession began, an estimated 4 million additional Americans have lost their health insurance and 2 million have become uninsured. The recent turmoil in the job market is likely increasing the number of uninsured at the rate of 14,000 a day. And yet, congressional conservatives opposed efforts to stop the erosion of our health care system and help millions of Americans hold on to the coverage they have or get it for the first time.
Congressional Republicans and conservative Democrats think that delays can help slow and ultimately kill efforts to pass real health care reform, especially with a public option. And instead of facing that challenge head-on by calling on senators to stay in D.C. until work was completed and a vote was held, Reid reached for his Bermuda shorts.
How Harry Reid rose to the rank of Senate Majority Leader is a question for another post. The question for this post is, "Hey, Harry--whose side are you on, anyway?"
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