Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Hey, we can do this

Yglesias points out that the Gang of Six negotiating the Senate Finance version of health reform all represent very small states — in fact, the combined population of their states is less than that of New Jersey.

So hey, why not let New Jersey do this instead? We can get a committee of, say, three corrupt mayors and three money-laundering rabbis to draw up a plan; it could hardly be worse than what Max Baucus has come up with.*

As we say here in the Garden State, “You got a problem with that?”

*People in the know say not to worry too much about the awfulness of the Finance proposal; the important thing is getting it out of committee, so that it can be fixed in later negotiations. I hope they’re right.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/hey-we-can-do-this/