’)So, 5 Democrats voted with the Republicans against the Rockefeller public option. Good job. In 2006 and 2008 people circled around the Democrats in congress to give them their majority to make reform in America. In the realm of health care, they’ve taken the ball to the 20 yard line then took a knee.
In 2012, we’ll be on the front lines advocating for President Obama’s second term. But next year, the Senate Dems are well-on the path of telling us to stay home.
Dems not so good in the Red Zone.
Hillary was right: Obama doesn’t know how to lead.
That might be true if he was the majority leader of the senate.
Farris,
I fail to understand why the actions of several conservaDems in the Senate (bought and paid for by the insurance lobby) is all Obama’s fault. Perhaps he should have taken a play from Hillary’s book and generate a plan without the input of Congress. Note how far that got on the Hill last time.
Wave on the field goal unit.
This is all Kabuki. The only vote that matters is the cloture vote. Whether the public option is inserted on the Senate floor or in reconciliation, once something passes, 9 of the corporate whores can vote against the final version and we still get a good bill.
Wave on the field goal unit.
Nah, just time to stop throwing it deep to the prima donna wideout and go back to the punishing ground game that got us here. Five yards in a cloud of dust! Right up their gut!
Single payer was the TO, Wilbur. They traded him away a long time ago. The QB sucks and the linemen are listening to their agents instead of the head coach. Everyone’s more concerned with renewing their contracts instead of establishing any kind a ground game, punishing or otherwise.
Whoops, sorry, off-topic. My mistake.
Wrong analogy, Dennis. Much as it pains my black and gold soul to say it, the Republicans are the Steelers D without Polamalu. Obama is Carson Palmer, and Ochocinco is about to give his ass and mouth a rest on the sidelines. Fourth and goal.
You’re a Stiller’s fan, Wilbur? Whoa.
Don’t tell me you like Eat N Parks, too.
Which teams’s David Weigel on?
Better not stomp on my turrible tahl.
Why not just outlaw everything in America that doesn’t allow massively bloated corporations to write the rules on how much they can gouge the public then totally fuck them by reneging on a contract they are supposed to honor when people who have been paying into it in good faith actually need it?
Oh….right….that’s what the GOP are trying to do….thank God, as the poor fucking insurance companies and their well paid Congressional whores just have to keep making gobs of money while making sure they don’t have to actually insure anyone who has the audacity of getting sick in the first place.
Capitalism good, socialism bad. *roll eyes*
Wait…if we could come up with half a billion dollars to put Dems in office, surely we can come up with the 50 million necessary to bribe these 9 or 10 Senators to support a public option? If we hurry, we can catch the corporate interests off guard…they’d never know what hit them!
Taibbi was right – they gave away any meaningful power when they took single payer off the table immediately and for no reason. That’s not how you negotiate.
>Senate Dems are well-on the path of telling us to stay home.
I’m thinking more along the lines of very vocal, strindently progressive primary challengers.
Starting today; even for any 2014 primaries.
It did wonders on Specter’s voting record from what I hear.
Had he done that in the first place, that would have been leadership. But we know Obama is not a leader. He is a campaigner. Giving speeches to an adoring crowd in Minneapolis is not leadership. Persuading Senators who actually vote on things would be.
But hey- keep making speeches, Chief. Go to Copenhagen. Ignore Afghanisan. Have your date nights. I’m looking forward to this health care “reform” blowing up, so they can go back to the drawing board to come up with some real solutions that won’t cost trillions.