Failure, Now Our Only Option

Failure is not an option. -- Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 Flight Director

It's almost always easier to pass a bill in the House than in the Senate. So the difficulties in the House show how tough it's going to be for us. But like the House, we'll succeed, because every Democrat, from the most liberal to the most conservative, knows that failure is not an option. -- Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.).

Look, the bottom line is, the American people, the American economy, and the federal budget have to have some sort of reforms in the health care system. And, you know failure is not an option this year. -- Barry H. Obama (8/5/2009), responding to the following question from NBCs Chuck Todd: "If you're going to get something passed, you're going to get it passed any way you can?"

...That failure is not an option because millions of Americans are watching their premiums skyrocket. - Robert Gibbs, ABC This Week

These people are putting out all the dramatic stops now. That's proof right there that this idea is too dumb to move itself along an orderly process. The pattern for this administration is to hurry into things that won't take place for years to come. Obviously they will all be gone byt the time the consequences are known, and those consequences will be many. Among them,
Lower quality health care.
More expensive healthcare.
Budgetary disaster.
Fewer doctors.
More lawyers.
Fewer Choices.
More Bureacrats.

Unfortunately, once the government gets rolling in a direction, thyey have to claim some sort of victory, so we will get a health care bill; and whatever size and scope it turns out to be it will be the wrong thing to do.

So, I have to agree...failure is not an option, it's a dead certainty.