It’s like if you’re driving, and there’s a cliff up ahead, and you want to turn the wheel and go some other direction, but…

…the Democrat next to you keeps whining that you’re “destroying the road trip as we know it.”

The “do nothing” approach is, let’s not forget, a damned fine one most of the time. I use it frequently, and wish Democrats and liberals would, too. “Doing nothing” is out of character for Democrats, though. They always want to do something. They want the government to Do Something. The only times “do nothing” seems to work for them is when the road trip is about to end with Harvey Keitel running after our ragtop Thunderbird as we attempt to prove that gravity works.

But, see, that’s exactly the time when “do something” is in order. Jimmie Bise points this out:

The Democrats have no plan to save Medicare, in its current form or any form at all. To be sure, they say they have a plan. Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, summed up what her party calls a plan ten days ago.

We have a plan. It’s called Medicare.

But saying that’s a plan doesn’t actually make it one. No one outside a small cadre of Democrat hard-liners and their media shills believe that Medicare, as it exists right now, is headed anywhere but toward catastrophic failure.

I should note that the “do nothing” approach on Medicare won’t really be like going off a cliff – the acceleration will be lower, for one thing, and we’ll still be able to brake and steer. Just not as well as we would have before we get to the edge. But the fact is: there is an edge, and we’re heading for it, and the Democrats seem entirely satisfied with that.

Makes you wonder if they’ve got something really nefarious up their sleeves.