A Novel Idea Whose Time Has Come..

   There was a short blurb on the news last night about a Democratic Senator, and others of her party, who had sent a letter to the Republican majority, pledging to help craft a new Healthcare law. Maybe I misremembered, but early this morning, I can't find the story.

   But I want to think about that idea anyway.

   I may be naive, but I want that letter idea to be sincere, and I want the Republicans not to just posture, but to accept it as a plan to help American men and women, not only to have access to the best healthcare in the world, but to have a Congress that supports that idea for everyone.

   In short, I would like to see cooperation in Congress.

   Cooperation would look like Representatives and Senators working together to fix problems that plague the country.

   But most of what I see are politicians of both stripes competing to show how partisan they can be, so they might prove that they need to stay in office, or that their party needs to be in control.

   There is sincere doubt that either side of the debate has a lock on all the best ideas on this, or any other subject.

   Where does concern for the people of the electorate, or, for that matter, all the people of the country?

   One party spends all its time crafting a law that gets rid of the one enacted by a previous President, and the other spends all its time promising to vote against anything put forward.

   Could there be a bill written that could be a compilation of the best ideas?

   Could there be a bill with the names of a Republican lawmaker and a Democratic one in the title? Say the McConnell-Schumer Health Law?

   We can only pray...

   A verse from Mark's Gospel this morning:

"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand."

   And a warning for all of us..