Senator Tom Carper is going to be taking calls live on the air at WDEL from 9 – 10am tomorrow. Don’t worry about tuning in. This is how it is going to go down.
Tom Carper will agree with a caller that the health care system needs to be reformed. Tom Carper will brazenly lie and say that he supports President’s Obama’s efforts, then in the next breath he will tell the truth and say that he has “concerns” about the reforms. He will not elaborate on his over weening concern, that insurance companies might not make the billions in profits that they are accustomed to making if health care is reformed.
Tom Carper will note that some people like idea of Co-Ops while others like the idea of a single-payer type system. If any callers get past the screeners and asks about the $1.5 million in contributions that Tom Carper has taken from Insurance & Drug Companies he will boldly disclose that his vote will not affected by those contributions one bit.
Finally, I predict that health care reform discussions will last for ten minutes, and that Carper will allow one caller to dominate the balance of the time complaining about the pot holes on his street and demanding that Senator Carper does something to get them fixed. That caller will be the same guy who kept calling Liberalgeek “Al.”