I’m more than willing to sacrifice 20 Democratic seats – especially of people who don’t vote with Dems often enough – in order for serious, real, public-option enabled medical reform.
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With any luck the 20 seats will disappear and the attempt to ruin the most effective healthcare system in the world will also fail.
Anyone who calls the current health care system effective is lost.
Boy oh boy! Hasn’t this Hopey Changey thing turned around.
Just like a rookie first round QB, Obama is clearly demonstrating that he’s not ready for prime-time and his OLine (Congress and Senate) is like a subway turnstile.
The rest of the team has to be willing to play with the QB, too. If the rest of the team just can’t carry the ball, the game may still be lost.
Obama had the right idea and the crazy, extremist Republicans in this country are destroying this country, but Obama just doesn’t have the courage to pull off health care reform. He is too much like a typical Democrat: The lunatic right-wingers start whining and he starts trying to get them to love him. Seriously, Republican jackboots didn’t worry about the Constitution while Bush tortured people, spied on innocent citizens without warrants, imprisoned US citizens without trials and now these jackboots are worried about health care reform being unconstitutional? They are nuts–insane, extremists, fascists and Obama, the coward, thinks he can somehow placate these lunatics and is willing to throw out the public option in an effort to make the racist, hate-filled, angry loons like him? What a coward!
Most effective health care system in the world?
Well, for the shareholders anyway.
Way to follow through on that “Democrats behaving more like Republicans” bulldada. I thought purity tests are for the conservatives?
And the Democrat should be happy too because it means they can pass successful legislation for a change.
“For a change”?!? Democratics already have a Supermajority. You’re telling us you can’t pass legislation without a super-duper, mega-monstro Majority?
Excuses, excuses…
Just like a rookie first round QB, Obama is clearly demonstrating that he’s not ready for prime-time and his OLine (Congress and Senate) is like a subway turnstile.
Perhaps Barry {snicker!} should trump up a phony war a la the Iraq Invasion or ignore threats from terrorists. Is that how the Pros do it?
Perhaps Barry {snicker!} should trump up a phony war a la the Iraq Invasion or ignore threats from terrorists. Is that how the Pros do it?
No, the real pros trump up a phony war AND ignore threats from terrorists.
I thought purity tests are for the conservatives?
It isn’t a purity test for Democrats to vote for health care reform. Ditto for Republicans, frankly. Its common sense.
…but only health care with a public option and end-of-life councilling – the whole progressive enchilada. Right? None of this incrementalism for us – full speed ahead, or else you’re not ONE OF US! Is that how it’s supposed to work? Sheesh. I’m so glad that Obama’s smarter than that.
Matthew Hooper, the public option is already a compromise of the progressive enchilada. Progressives take it for granted that there aren’t the votes for single payer, so they haven’t pushed it.
The public option is also something Obama campaigned heavily on. Are you really suggesting that congressional Democrats should shoot down a major point of a Democratic president’s agenda? Honestly, what’s the point of even having a political party if that can’t be accomplished?
Yes. We pass the public option later, after a national health care system is entrenched, and it becomes utterly impossible to uproot it because embraced by the American public just like Medicare and Social Security. Once it becomes blindlingly clear that health care reform will not is not code for “grandma eatin’ monster”, like the Republicans have been trying to make people believe, then we set upa government-run co-op and we have our public option. But let’s get the possible done, then perfect it.
Long story short? F**k ideology. Let’s get something that works.
With any luck the 20 seats will disappear and the attempt to ruin the most effective healthcare system in the world will also fail.
Translation: 37 = 1.
With any luck the 20 seats will disappear and the attempt to ruin the most effective healthcare system in the world will also fail. — Stephen Colbert
If you consider the fact that a higher percentage of our GDP is spent on health care than in any other nation, ‘efficient’ is not the correct word for it. However, our system is effective at maintaining profits for the health insurance sector, which seems to be very important to conservatives.