I still don’t understand the underlying logic of: “The Republicans aren’t doing everything perfectly my way, so let the other guys win who are doing absolutely everything opposite of my way.” Not a single person voicing anti-Republican sentiment from the right these days points to any instance of siding with the Democrats, yet if “their side” can’t do everything exactly the way they want then they’re doomed, broken, a horrible failure, etc.

Our biggest problem is and has been that the Republicans in Washington seem to be bad at the revised game of modern politics. They let the Dems constantly frame the arguments and so play right into their hands.

Take Health Care, for instance… instead of the proper response of “What crisis are you TALKING about?” they argue about the exact type of pseudo-free-market fixes that will be foisted off on the country. If the rising costs are the “crisis” maybe a proposal to undo tax and regulatory goads towards managed health care instead of allowing actual insurance would be a good plan. It’s as if no one realizes in D.C. that paying a doctor for a checkup has GOT to be cheaper than paying an insurance company to pay a doctor for a checkup. Yet, they once again agree with everything the Dems say, right up to the point of actual legislation… then they argue methods.

{What’s funny to me is that all the arguments for goverment-mangled health care can be made about food, too. I mean, food is necessary to life. It’s arguably just as much a “right” as a doctor’s care (“just as much” meaning “not at all” as far as I can tell). Plus the cost of food is rising even more rapidly than health care, especially since our cheap corn base has been diverted into making really low-grade fuels. Is anyone going to argue that we need universal managed Food Care? That insurance companies and employers should be paying for everyones’ food? You can live without a lot of medical care… but can’t live at all without food… seems more crisis-y to me.}

No, my problem is NOT that the Republicans are opposing the Democrats, it’s that they don’t do it soon enough, hard enough, and loudly enough.