Editorial Cartoons- Weekly Debate

[CRASHiC]

Another attempt at a weekly debate. Not as cool as the Calvin and Hobbs, but more on topic. The debate will center around the cartoon presented and the issue it raises.

Is Senate Majority Leader Reid pushing through the health care bill to passage in truth coming at the expensive of the American people, and the bill?

Personally, from what I see, this is just the Senate progress. Every bill goes through the vast debauchery that this bill is receiving. "The Senate is where a bill comes to die." This statement still rings true, as Senate members have far more power than those in the house of representatives. It takes a vote just to come to a vote. Compromises are a necessity in the political environment in the Senate house floor, the question is, how much compromise is too much?

 

[KrazyGlue]

I don't think Reid is rushing too much; if the Dems were really rushing they would have tried harder to meet that ambitious August deadline they set out. How much compromise is too much? Well it's hard for me to say, since I don't know the text of the health care bill nor what edits have occurred. But in general, it depends on what kind of compromise. Compromises that are made with the genuine intention of improving the bill are always acceptable. When compromises that fundamentally change the bill just for the sake of passing it are made, that's where we run into trouble.

As for the cartoon, the author is clearly trying to suggest that the Dems are trying to rush the bill, which, as I've already stated, I disagree with.

 

[CRASHiC]

Sorry, I failed to create a clear seperation between the question being raised by the cartoon itself and my personal response. Fixed.

 

[KrazyGlue]

I see. No problem.

Anyways, I think there also might be something to the "or else" bit, maybe trying to suggest that the Dems know that if they don't pass this before the next election they will lose ground? Now that I would agree with. Americans are hungry for change.