Obamacare death will be due to partisanship, NOT common sense

There was a SNL skit during the healthcare debate before congress where the players imitating the Republican members indicated that they could indeed support Obama if only he would change HIS position.  It was comical...but it was true....as their is often truth in the best comedy.

President Barack Obama: Sen. McConnell, as the Senate Minority Leader, I want you to have a voice too. Now, uh, what can I do to bring the rest of the Republican Party into the conversation.

Mitch McConnell : Well, uh, Mr. President, maybe I can explain the Republican position -- it's not that we don't want health care to fail. We don't! We just want you to fail. And defeating health care reform is the best way to do that.

[ President Obama clenches his jaw. ]

Mitch McConnell : Because if you fix health care, that would be a big victory for you and that's bad for us.

[ The President rubs his neck over and over. ]

Mitch McConnell : With that said, I could see us supporting health care but only if you switch your position to AGAINST it. 

Does anyone see the point ? Who on earth could be for giving the insurance companies even MORE dominance over our lives. Letting them continue to deny people who have indeed paid premiums all their lives to enrichen the insurance companies...DENY them life saving coverage when they may need it most because of pre-existing conditions.  Republicans can do that ..checking their moral character in the mirror on the way out the door, somehow telling themselves they saved the country from the socialism they so preach about.  I will consider the irony of the fact that I am now not required to buy medical insurance the next time I am at the DMV where the State of Virginia requires me to buy auto insurance, but somehow THIS doesn't threaten a cloud of socialism to anyone who has gone along with that program all along.  Republicans have been claiming they will defeat Obamacare at the ballot box.  Now with a partisan group of the 9 most powerful men and women in the world, MORE powerful easily than the congress, senate, or president (just ask Al Gore), about to drive the dagger into the most incredibly needed piece of legislation that has been passed in my lifetime. 

I am sad that partisan politics has come this far.  Ruining a good idea for the sake of that it wasn't their idea.