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Looks like the retiring senior Senator from New Hampshire can't decide if as his last hurrah he should don the mantle of publicity hound or ambulance chaser. His last-minute injection of CPR into the health insurance reform discussion suggests the latter.
CPR, in typically clever conservative lingo, stands for Coverage, Prevention and Reform. It doesn't mean what you might think it means, just as urban renewal didn't mean that urbs would be made new, but rather that inconvenient residents would be removed.
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So, coverage very likely refers to the time tested practice of deprivation of rights under cover of law (instead of being properly served, persons will be relieved of their property by having to give it to the insurance industry).
Prevention always looks good to people who fear being attacked. But, the reality is that many of the insults with which humans are afflicted, either genetically or as a consequence of environmental insult, can only be prevented if the people aren't born.
Reform, we already know from the Social Security agenda, simply means to remove--much as offensive youth used to be removed by sending them to reform school where they could be beaten into shape behind closed doors.
Despite these first negative responses, I was actually going to download Gregg's new plan and then I noticed it's what he offered back in June of 2009. So, it's just more of the same old, same old. Why I expected something else, I don't even know.
Guess I'm slow. It took me this long to realize that, like ownership, bipartisanship is not a ship that's going to take you anywhere. Conservatives just need a party of suckers whom they can order around and Democrats, the party of action, are an easy mark. Tell them to jump and they'll ask, "how high." Obstructionists have that advantage. People looking for action find it hard to imagine that some people prefer stasis.
I wasn't going to weigh in. But, having Gregg referred to as man of restless energy by the Politico pundit was just more than I could take. It's bad enough when conservatives are slothful. A hyper Gregg would be a disaster. So, I have to think the pundit got that wrong, too.
Why bother with the retiring senior? Well, like the unjust steward in the bible, he's likely discounting what we, his masters are owed. And besides, Gregg is not alone. There's many more where he came from.
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