Oh shut up

Health care is almost done, with only a few t's and i's left to cross or dot, a few differences to smooth out, and a couple of rights that we need to decide if women should have or not. But even though the health care bill isn't finished, there is still ample opportunity for Democrats to bitch about it and complain that it shouldn't have been done so soon, that we should have left reform to the ever shifting, always nebulous "future." Ben Nelson is one of those whiners.

“I think it was a mistake to take health care on as opposed to continuing to spend the time on the economy,” he said.
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“I would have preferred not to be dealing with health care in the midst of everything else, and I think working on the economy would have been a wiser move,” he said.

Irrespective of the fact that health reform is of benefit to the economy or the fact that every idiot in the Senate seems to have convinced themselves that they can only do one thing at once and that they don't want to do more than one hard thing every two years (no hard things is preferable), what exactly is it that you want to do on the economy, Ben?

Because I remember a period in time when the government was explicitly dealing with the economy in terms of a stimulus. Do you know why it's burned into my head? Because after proposing a stimulus that was too small for the economic problems this country was facing, a couple of jerkoff Senators decided that it needed to be made smaller and randomly lopped of $100 billion in programs that would have benefited the economy in order to look they they were doing something important. I seem to remember one asshole basing his economic theories around what numbers sounded too big or too much for Nebraskans. Sound familiar?

You know, new action wouldn't be as necessary if you didn't help mangle the economic help the first go around. So let's just agree that you should stay far the fuck away from the issue of jobs and the economy. You just stand in the corner calculating economic theories based around imagined Nebraskan notions and what passes for adults in the House and Senate will take care of the hard work. Then you can make it worse, like you always do. Just stop whining.