No Big Tent

It's fun to watch hypocrisy in action.  All week we've been seeing party purists railing against party members who dare to object to party extremists. And that's from the Liberals.

Yes, the left wants to take this broken left wing and fly, but some democrats and democrats forced to portray themselves as independents, have some issues with the tweaking and retooling of the Health Scare Bill.  Harry Reid's answer is to give away whatever he has to to get this trash can bill out of the Senate. The purists on the left who demand a statist conquest are simply "spittle flying from the lips" livid.

They don't want any compromise.   So no big tent on the left, eh?  I guess that's another nail in the "we want a bi-partisan congress" meme.  Not even within their own party.

So after hours or days of backroom deal making--basically buying up or giving up everything the elected leadership promised us we had to have in a real 'Reform" package--we've got a steaming pile that Howard Dean says Senate democrats should vote against.

Dean, rumored to be working out of the almost transgendered $70K remodeled bathroom just down the hall from Speaker Norelli's office in Concord, (no room for a big tent in there) had some of the transcript of a prerecorded interview posted on line.  Dean is reported to have said this.

“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. Honestly the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill, go back to the House, start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill.”

Plenty of other hard left objectors--just follow the link.

So Lieberman, who survived the left wing hate machine that tried to unseat him in his last election, who will now bend over for Harry Reid's do whatever it takes to pass something called health care bill, has angered the same man who probably tried to replace him in the first place.

Pass the popcorn.

What we see here is the reality of intra-party partisan politics.  It's everywhere.  And to be honest, I agree with the hard left progressives on this one.  This bill should be scrapped.  The left needs to offer up what it is they think is necessary, sell it on its merits--or lack of--and let it pass or fail.  Now I can say that because a pure bill would fail miserably.  But since the hard left has no problem playing hypocrite on it's own inability to accept what it demands from the right--a big tent approach-- then I think they should have to accept that a majority of American's and their elected officials (who want to stay elected) object to this legislation in all its forms.

But they are not used to the straightforward approach.  So they may just have to admit that they are intolerant left wing purists who won't stand for moderates in their party.

(H/T Curt Levey RedState)