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As soon as it passes, we will be showered with the predictable apologetics from the Obama camp and its generally mindless minions. “You’ve got to start somewhere” “Change is incremental, we can make it better later,” “There you go again, rigidly insisting on your own (read: wildly and out of touch and ultra-liberal) version of good in what is inevitably a messy legislative process.” Every other democrat interviewed, will repeat some version of the phrase allegedly uttered by the now-departed Ted Kennedy “We must not let the perfect become the enemy of the possible.”

This would all great except for one salient fact: the perfect (single payer) was never given the opportunity to be the enemy of the possible. It was taken off the table before the entire process of negotiation began. And this was done as a result of cold calculations taken at the very highest policy-making levels of the White House. They got into bed with the insurance industry and big Pharma way back in the late winter and assured them that the money machine they currently operate would not be substantially affected by Obama’s “reform” plans. In return, the White House gained the tacit assurance that a) industry money would continue flowing to the Democrats and b) Harry and Louise would not be brought out of mothballs to frighten and befog the minds of the “low information” voters in the general populace.