Hey, Mickey, You So Bright! Hey Mickey!

Don't over thank me for the headline if it resulted in one hit wonder Toni Basil's Hey Mickey mindlessly bouncing around inside your head today, the "weird AL" version if you prefer it.

Courtesy of Instapundit, multi-hit wonder Mickey Kaus, who has great instincts, especially when it comes to Democrat mis-steps, is bouncing around in mine, as he's so often spot on and ahead of the curve about things like this.

Why are the health care polls going south? Unaffiliated voters worried about the deficit? Libs worried about the public option? Seniors worried about death panels overzealous cost containment measures?

I'm pondering as to whether Mickey is showing early signs of West Coast-ian disease aka an increasinging insensitivity to Big Government and what it means to many Americans. If that's it and he's ahead of the curve, as he often is, it would suggest that even if we beat back national health care now, it's still coming in 5 or 10 years and we're on our way to European-socialism eventually, whether we like it, or not.

I say that as, even allowing for potentially 7% of liberals who don't find the plan bold enough abandoning it as per polling Mickey cites,  I think the answer is obvious. Even many Democrats and Independent moderates have plenty of experience with failed, or significantly flawed Big Government plans. I think the more they ponder the prospect, the more they don't want government any more involved in something as intimate as their health care decisions than they absolutely have to be.

In any event, Mickey's puzzlement is a puzzle to me, just as is how Hey Mickey ever became a number 1 hit. Must have been the kitsch effect, or maybe it was the beat.

Comments

[Greyledge Gal]

Let's see -- I was 20, had the whole world as my oyster, had my whole life in front of me, Ronald Reagan was President . . . and I could dance for hours (in 3 inch heels, no less). Sounds like a good time for:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4CyNvEfWoE&feature=fvw

Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
You're so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!
Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
You're so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!
Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
You're so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!

Hey Mickey!
You been around all night, And that's a little long
You think you got the right, but I think you got it wrong
Oh, can't you say "Good night"
So you can take me home, Mickey.

Cuz when you say you will, it always mean you won't
You're giving me the chills, baby, please, baby don't
Every night you spend the evening all alone, Mickey

(CHORUS)
Oh, Mickey what a pity you don't understand
You take me by the heart, when you take me by the hand
Oh, Mickey you're so pretty, can't you understand
It's guys like you, Mickey
Oh, what'cha do Mickey, do Mickey,
Don't break my heart Mickey

Hey Mickey
Now when you take by the ooooh
Everyone gonna know
Every time you move, a little rhythm gonna show
There's something you can use,
So don't say no Mickey

So, come on and give it to me any way you can
Any way you wanna do it I'll treat you like a man
Oh, please baby please
Don't leave me in a jam Mickey

Oh, Mickey what a pity you don't understand
You take me by the heart, when you take me by the hand
Oh, Mickey you're so pretty, can't you understand
It's guys like you, Mickey
Oh, what'cha do Mickey, do Mickey,
Don't break my heart Mickey

Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
You're so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!
Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
You're so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Mickey! Hey Mickey!
Oh Mickey, you're so fine,
You're so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Mickey!

Oh, Mickey what a pity you don't understand
You take me by the heart, when you take me by the hand
Oh, Mickey you're so pretty, can't you understand
It's guys like you, Mickey
Oh, what'cha do Mickey, do Mickey,
Don't break my heart Mickey

(Chorus) 2x

[Greyledge Gal]

And seriously, on Mickey Kaus, are you, perchance, grading him on the "Bell Curve"? ;-)

[Joseph Brown]

I was just perusing a website from Pravda. I swear I didn't know at first, but there is an interesting article on there that suggests the same thing. They suggested in the article that for years we have pushed the theory that a person could push him/herself to succeed in life and grasp the American dream. Not only that, but we tried to push our way of life off on other countries and now it's coming back to bite us on our fourth point of contact. Wow!
Really, we should have known our system was doomed to failure and that socialism was the way to go. Ok, the article didn't really say that, but there was a strong hint about it. There was definitely a not so subtle gloating going on.

[Mike G in Corvallis]

I wish Kaus' blog allowed comments. It astonishes me -- OK, maybe it doesn't -- that among the reasons he lists you will NOT find:

* Nobody knows exactly what's in this two-thousand-page monstrosity of a bill

* We don't even know who wrote individual sections of the bill

* It's being rammed down our throats in only a few days, and neither the public nor our Congresscritters are being given a chance to discuss and debate its provisions

* People have already caught the White House and Congressional Democrats in any number of lies and contradictions about what's in it and what it will do

* The House and Senate versions probably will be "reconciled" into something with the worst features of both plus a few new surprises as well

* Claims that funding for the new healthcare regime will come in part from elimination of several hundred billion bucks of "waste" in Medicare don't address the question of why this waste isn't being eliminated NOW, rather than after passage of the bill

Even if you're for a government takeover of the nation's health care -- and I'm not, but Kaus apparently is -- then why can't someone tell us why should we be in favor of THIS PARTICULAR takeover of the nation's health care?

Just askin' ... Hey, Mickey!