fiasco

The road ahead, as I dread it:

The first of the "health care reforms" kick in. Most of these apply to the already insured or children of the already insured. The pharminsurance folks will be undermining these bureaucratically and via government puppets, while claiming that the new rules justify any premium increase they declare. Healthbiz stock will continue to rise in value, as it has through every single step of the "health care debate."

Meanwhile the economy, at best, stagnates. Mainstream consensus is little or zero growth in employment for the next year, and since the current administration is part of that consensus, wow, they're right. So when the "Health Care: One Year Later" stories come around, everybody will be just a bit (or a whole lot more) miserable in general, and the great Democratic Party triumph will appear to be even weenier than it is.

By that time, maybe, the Dems will realize that even if they offer the same services to commerce as the Repubs, money would rather have the old, skilled whores than the young types who might drift from the repertoire. Result: the young whores will continue to try to outsuck the old ones, the old ones will continue to have the fanciest furnishings in the whorehouse, and management will prosper all the same.

Nothing here intended against whores, or sucking. Just a handy metaphor. Try a different one.

If the Dems are just fresher turds than the Repubs, why should I care? The Repubs will still be the worst, more disease-riddled, laden with fat maggots. The Dems seem to be happy polishing up their pile of shit, but the Repubs want to mash theirs into every corner of the world, private, public, national, international, orbital.

I guess that's enough shit for the day.