DC: The colorful former Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, penned an op-ed in The Hill warning his fellow Democrats that the party was leaning too far left.
For Democrats, one trend that has taken hold is quite alarming: our swing to the far left. That trend has been exemplified by almost all of our putative presidential candidates. The two clearest examples of trying to appeal to our base by being as progressive as possible were the rush to embrace a “single-payer” health care system after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) publicly endorsed it, and the stampede to call for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Sanders’s Medicare-for-all plan really was not unexpected; he talked about single-payer during the 2016 campaign. But when he reiterated it, loudly and clearly, his words brought a rapid endorsements from almost all other Democrats who are hinting at presidential aspirations. If you’ve read one of my columns in The Hill, you know that I think single-payer could work under certain circumstances but I am troubled by its initial expense and taxes we would have to raise to make it work early on. In the few places it has been tried, such as Vermont, it was repealed because it was simply unworkable and unfundable.
If the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020 – be it Sanders or no – promises to enact a single payer, “Medicare for all” health insurance plan, that candidate will be slaughtered. With a price tag of $3 trillion over 10 years, and the prospect of government interferring in our health care decisions, the American people would decisively reject the idea.
So yes, please Democrats, go for it.
By any stretch of the imagination, single payer health insurance is a radical change from the system we have now. Rendell believes this radicalism isn’t necessary. more here
Their angst about losing the election and control over the lo-fo’s is palpable.
Ole Sluggo Rendell sets them straight. Gee Ed, do you think they don’t know that?
They’re not supposed to openly declare their totalitarians lusts.
Rendell is astute enough to see this, and is attempting to warn them.
That they’re frantically stumbling through the fog of their own foolishness seems to be evading him.
Hitler, Mao, Ho, and Stalin (earlier “extreme leftists”) had enough sense to keep their mouths shut about their intentions.
Fortunately (for them – not that “luck” really has anything to do with it – it is the plague of Public Schooling and Unionized Teachers) the public is a morass of ignorance and superstition.
izlamo delenda est …
“Leaning”?
Ed Rendell… another seat-polishing crook from here in PA. Check out his family ties to the PA Turnpike System as well as a bunch of “shady” business practices involving companies allowed to drill for natural gas and how he did “shake them down” for his own enrichment. He is a fucking crook. Our current governor (Wolf) is Obama on steroids and needs to go as well.
Leaning is the early sign of crooked.
Leaning?
They fell into the abyss decades ago.
They hit bottom with a splat in 2016.
Now they are just a rotting carcass in 2018.
Proof: Hildabeast, Bernie, Booker, Feinstein, Mueller, Occasional-Cortex, Maxi-Pad Waters
Fast Eddie Rendell even sees the white’s of the eyes of the Communists!
Too late, Eddie.