True Health Care Reform D.O.A. - A Fable?

Hope is a good thing but alone without persistence is a matter of luck. The thing the opposition doesn't understand is that people with hope deep inside actually will follow through.

The ant can't be bothered with the size of his/her task when it finds a spider that was D.O.A. when it was found. It drags its object little by little until it reaches home. It persistent ant works rests and works some more.

The thing about the ant is that it persists and exists not just for itself but for it's community. The ant never questions what the other ants are doing. It doesn't quit because another ant is just walking around goofing off. The ant will share the spider with the nest. If it were too heavy the ant would disassemble the spider and haul it piece by piece but it will never give up.

This tiny creature is, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "What a piece of work is a ant, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action..."

So that's how it is with Health Care. Dead on arrival from the Senate Finance Committee that unlike the ant decided the issue was too big and gave it up for another smaller morsel that, as it turns out was poisoned.

Perhaps the Congress can take it apart and get most of it back to the nest. All along Barack Obama has kept pulling and if we really want it dragged home perhaps we should help with calls, letters and expressions of hope backed with the persistence of belief in our country.

I'd love to see the headlines read "President Obama Drags Health Care Across the Line"