Howard Dean has the best explanation for a Brown victory yet.
Just listened to Howard Dean on Rachel Maddow’s show. His explanation for a Brown win? Republicans don’t think Obama has delivered enough change.
It’s pretty clear that people are upset by what’s going on in Washington. They don’t like the partisanship, they don’t like the bickering. They don’t I think really see the kind of change they were hoping to get. I had a number of people, Republicans, who had voted for the president the last time around and they are really looking for some real change. I think the American people want real change and they haven’t seen that yet.
Can a statement contain so many contradictions that it actually becomes true?
UPDATE: Victory. The wheels are coming off at MSNBC. I encourage you to watch.
I just heard the interview on Chris Mathews show with Howard Dean.
I think Dean is fully correct in his interpretation of the polls. The current proposed health care bill is the best that we can do with the politicians and special interests that we have but it's not good enough. It's fundamentally a sell out to the insurance companies and it doesn't touch the health care providers; it will not only not decrease costs but likely drive them up because insurance companies would use the new rules as justification to increase premiums.
I fully agree that what the public want is cost reduction and a new way of doing politics.
We still need health care reform and cost reductions. One alternative that is simple and easy to understand is to initiate reduction of qualification age for Medicare.
Alvin Enns
20 Jan 10 at 10:30 am
Howie Dean is on dope.
Al
20 Jan 10 at 3:25 pm