NY Times - "Senate Debate on Health Care Exacerbates Partisanship"

[TomCADem]

The Republicans are now praying for something to cause Democrats to miss votes on health care.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21senatecnd.html

Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma and a leading opponent of the measure, said Sunday that a missing Democrat might be the best hope for foes of the overhaul.

“What the American people should pray is that somebody can’t make the vote,” he said in a floor remark that Democrats found offensive and suggestive of wishing misfortune on one of them.

“This statement goes too far,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate. “We are becoming more coarse and divided here.”

Members of both parties say the dispute over health care has created bad blood, left both Democrats and Republicans suspicious of the opposition’s motives, and shattered some of the institution’s traditional collegiality.

[HuckleB]

1. The Republican Party Exacerbates Partisanship.

They are immature, dysfunctional dolts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/opinion/21krugman.html?_r=2