Middle Ground

Noam Levey has an article in this morning's LATimes more or less extolling the remarkable bipartisanship of Baucus and Grassley for seeking the 'middle ground' on health care reform legislation. Let's ignore for the fact that for Grassley, the middle ground is defined as his way. The key fact to remember is that the idea is to reform healthcare to make it available (and affordable) to everyone (not a majority, not some, everyone). Bipartisan unity and comity is not the goal, getting healthcare to everyone is...

As Governor Dean said:

The bottom line on healthcare reform is that it is not worth doing if it is not done right....

And let's remember that for Hitler and Stalin, the middle ground was Poland.