Evan Bayh Talks About the Most Expensive Breakfast Ever

WLFI doesn’t get much love from us. They are the only TV station in one of the nation’s smallest markets (Lafayette), but they came through big this weekend with the quintessential Evan Bayh headline:

Bayh Explains Health Care Waffle

That got us wondering, what would a health care waffle be?

Customer: What’s the Health Care Waffle?

Waitress: It’s a big, bloated, bureaucratic waffle.

Customer: What kind of toppings?

Waitress:  You have a choice between strawberries, blueberries or public syrup. But the public syrup option is subsidized by tax increases, so it’s cheaper for you. When your kids come in later, we’ll just bill them.

Customer: That doesn’t sound very good. What else can I get?

Waitress: Nothing. We’re requiring all Americans to buy the health care waffle.

But we digress.

Here’s the real story.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – Democrat Senator Evan Bayh said his change of heart on the health care reform bill was a misunderstanding. News Channel 18 caught up with him and asked about his waffling regarding the health care bill. Earlier, Bayh said he would support Republicans in blocking the bill from being debated. Other reports show he will allow the health care bill to move forward for discussion. Bayh told News Channel 18 his comments were misconstrued. He always intended to allow debate to happen.

“They said are there any conceivable circumstances you might possibly imagine not being able to support the legislation. I said I suppose theoretically and immediately I was opposed to it going forward, but I made it clear it had to be completely unconscionable and I was unaware of anything that meets that test in the bill,” said Bayh.

Thanks, Evan. Your positions are so much clearer now.

Except, in your interview with Bob Schieffer on CBS News, you clearly had a differing view (fastforward to 6:45 of video).

“Some people argue that we should vote to go forward on a bill even if we don’t like it,” he said. “As we get further along in this, I view procedure and substance as being largely one and the same. I’d like to move forward, but some of that’s going to depend on is it fiscally responsible.”

We’ll take our Health Care Waffle with a side of Evan Bayh Eggs: try to prepare them sunny-side-up, make a mistake, then scramble them to try to cover it up.

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am | Permalink | Share on Twitter | Share on Facebook |

6 Responses

  1. I was told by a college friend of Evan’s that his college nickname was “whimpy”. Sometimes that image never goes away.

    Posted by: Shorty Long on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm | Comment Permalink | Reply


  2. Your waffle story was a good one, if it were only true. As it turns out, the healthcare waffle is being paid for now, the cost isn’t being passed on to future generations like most of the policies and spending of the last administration. In fact, at the end of the waffle sale, we’ve left LESS of a bill for our future generations.

    And to source this and also keep in the waffle theme, this info all comes from the non-partisan CBO, the Congressional Breakfast Office…

    Posted by: Anonymous on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:52 pm | Comment Permalink | Reply


    • It’s cute that you actually believe that.

      Posted by: FH on November 2nd, 2009 at 2:04 pm | Comment Permalink | Reply


      • Do you have information that is better than what the CBO has? I mean, I know that the truth isn’t something you like to hear, but the “You’re wrong because it hurts my case” argument doesn’t carry much water.

        Posted by: Anonymous on November 2nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Comment Permalink | Reply


        • If you can find me a social welfare program that has actually met its cost projections we’ll talk. This one relies on accounting lies to make ends meet. A classic example is provider reimbursement cuts under Medicare. The bill relies on those savings to make sure it doesn’t shatter its own cost savings projections in the next year alone. Meanwhile, Congress bails out Medicare providers on an annual basis and has for years. Imagine if the legislature passed a budget everyone said was balanced, but carved out INDOT’s budget. It doesn’t mean the books are balanced, it’s a smoke and mirrors campaign to get the bill they want passed. Democrats will figure the rest out later, just like with the stimulus bill.

          Posted by: FH on November 2nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm | Comment Permalink | Reply


  3. Again, it’s obvious that you know talking points, but what are the facts?

    CBO numbers tell a completely different story, and they are bi-partisan and respected by both parties.

    So, your “hunch” probably isn’t something that we should base facts on.

    this is a ten year piece of legislation. After 10 years, if it continues, it has to be funded again, that is where social program problems come in. After 10 years, a lack of political courage keeps politicians from wanting to face the truth and raise money to pay for popular programs. That’s exactly why we are in the trouble we are in now. It was popular to cut taxes under GW Bush, but republicans in Congress didn’t pay for those tax cuts, they just ran up debt to pay for them. They tell when you raise a tax and yell further when there is a deficit, pretty stupid, isn’t it?

    But again, the fact is that this piece of legislation is completely funded and then some as it decreases the deficit over 10 years.

    Posted by: Anonymous on November 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm | Comment Permalink | Reply

   
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